SOWK 2035 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Canyon De Chelly National Monument, Bighorn Sheep, Hohokam
15 Apr 2020
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Week 15: dykes and roads in the southwest hohokam, mogollan and anasazi. Four corners: utah, colorado, arizona and new mexico meet. Southwest is a region of great environmental diversity. Holocene climate optimum (9000-5000bp) climate has changed over the long scale of centuries since the last ice age, ice sheets receded and started warming up. Ancient southwest 200-1350 ad (adopted corn as major food staple) Montezuma castle cliff dwelling 1400 ad: aridity in the southwest preserved many ancient buildings. In the southwest people were constrained by their environments but not controlled by them. Area to arid to keep bisons, transition to plant foraging (seed chenopods, pine nuts, walnuts, prickly pear). Hunted: deer, bighorn sheep, antelopes, coyotes, badgers, bobcats, rabbits, gophers and squirrels. Southwest archaic peoples adopted corn as secondary food source in roughly 2100 bce. Gradual adoption of agriculture: farming became firmly established in the southwest by. Staying longer in places and returning annually, would be better to stay permanently.
