ANT317H5 Lecture 6: ANT317 - Topic 6 Study Notes
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Topic 6: late woodland ii part 1. Late woodland traditions: ontario iroquoian, western basin, has 4 phases. 1000 bc: native crop emphasis, maize, beans, squash - came from mexico, introduced to ontario. 500 bc: maize, beans, squash replace the native crop emphasis. Ad 1: evidence showing that maize diffused further north. Ad 1000: maize, beans and squash spread. Local economies were replaced by the spread of maize, beans and squash - became the staples of horticulture economy. Subsistence: horticulture, not practising artificial cultivation, not using water irrigation, no fertilizers or plows, maize, beans, squash, sunflower, tobacco, plus, wild resources: e. g. fleshy fruits (raspberries), deer. Settlement: nucleated, villages - usually home base for food producers. Subsistence: evidence gathered since 1990 shows that intensification of crop cultivation occurred in late. Princess point: glen meyer, pickering and owasco were fully horticulture. Late woodland (ad 500 - 1650) in ontario.
