ANT317H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Point Peninsula Complex, Habituation, Grave Goods
Document Summary
Introduction of pottery: early woodland, meadowood, middlesex, middle woodland, point peninsula, saugeen, couture. Late woodland: princess point = hunter-gatherer cultivator. Iroquoian = sedentary horticulturalists: early and middle = mobile hunter-gatherers with pottery. Fire pot: coil, mould, vinette 1 pottery, band level social organization, egalitarian social relations, kinship social structure - related to members of the group, small community (50-200 people, mobile subsistence strategy, seasonal settlements. Seasonal scheduling: hunter-gatherer-fisher, hunting animals, gathering plants, fishing, exploitation of seasonally available resources. Bruce boyd site (850 bc: meadowood habitation and cemetery, north shore lake erie near long point, a lot of grave goods in burials. Lake and wetland resources: evidence of organic materials. Low-level food production: like gardening, they were not dependent on it. Semi-sedentary: not there for long periods of time, they stay in one place for about one generation (~25 years) Adena bifaces: made from a variety of chert types. Involved in very extensive trade networks: exotic cherts were traded.
