ANTH 2050 Chapter : Anth 2050 E3
Document Summary
Important to ritual life, especially in terms or defining social status. Some people/groups have privilege access to exotic goods. As early as 3,000 bc to colonial period. Moundbuilders: background: late archaic (ca 2500 bc, plant domesticates, squash, gourd, goosefoot, marsh elder, sunflower, ceramics (ex- vinette, population growth. Poverty point: roles and functions: congregation place, important residential population, craft production and specialization long distance trade, flint, chert, jasper, hematite, slate, galena, copper, contact as far as great lakes. Lsu mounds: ca 3000 bc (possibly earliest in la, not used as burial grounds, rounded top. Exotic and high quality grave goods: effigy mounds. Sphere in which high status artifacts would come through and end up in burials: jewelry, fine weaponry. Cahokia: near st. louis, several settlements, ad 600-800 = first settlements, ad 900 = settlement hierarchy, ad 1050-1250 = peak, 30,000 40,000 people, palisaded core, after ad 1250 = decline.
