Anthropology 2231F/G Lecture Notes - Toggling Harpoon, Social Stratification, Sedentism
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Lecture 28 part 2 northwest coast: middle pacific period. Middle pacific 1,800 bc 200/500 ad: houses, sedentism, permanent villages. Widespread use, still some pithouses: social inequality. Households competed for members to accomplish tasks (hunting, etc. ) which drew in more people. Demand for workers inspired warfare and raiding for slaves: storage-based economy, warfare. Boats made out of a single tree. Often to protect status or revenge for loss of status, or chief indebted to another and didn"t pay him back: social stratification. 3,000 years ago there was definitely social stratification. Chiefs owned more slaves than others, most often war captives: boats, boxes, tackle (toggling harpoon heads, net weights, paul mason site: 1,450-950 bc. Late pacific 200/500 1775 ad: more bones and antler tools. Almost complete replacement of chip stone tools: increase in house sizes. For 20-25 families each: heavy-duty wood working tools. Massive adzes, pile drivers, etc: decline in midden burials, increase in burial mounds.