Anthropology 2222F/G Lecture Notes - Woodland Period, Spear-Thrower, Hand Axe

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 2222F/G
• Professor: Peter Timmins

Document Summary

There was domestication of plants starting in the south, clay pots that were very crude and there was a lot of continuity with the late archaic because they were the same people that just made lifestyle changes. Early cultigens were specially selected for their thin seed coats and early maturity and the most important plants were first domesticated in south america and they then spread to the north where they became staples by 800 ad. They are very important to archaeologists but perhaps not so much for the people that used them because it was adopted very slowly. Clay offered them more design choices than stone so there was the development of regional styles and their time- space relations are good things for us to study (ceramic seriation) Has similar distributions as middlesex extending in the eastern great lakes to new york.