What are Chiefdoms?
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First evidence of wealth inequality. Social status is inherited, disappear in
the 20th century.
-More intensive agriculture, like field irrigation
-Food surplus
-Political centralization, there is a formal leader
, What are other species that farm?
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ants. Implies are that farming evolves without intention.
What is important about Cahokia?
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Located outside of St-Louis, USA.
Large complex of mounds and plaza
Short-lived phenomena: boom-and-bust?
Built over 400 years, between A.D. 1000-1400§ Region goes from dispersed
villages, to sudden rise of Cahokia/urbanization, back to small dispersed
villages
Main features: Monk's Mound, central plaza Ample evidence of differential
status, wealth and elite.
Mound 72: Evidence of differential status and wealth, "Birdman",
Human sacrifices: elite had control over material wealth and lives of their
subjects.
What are bands?
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dozens of individuals; foragers; egalitarian; no social stratification.
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First evidence of wealth inequality. Social status is inherited, disappear in
the 20th century.
-More intensive agriculture, like field irrigation
-Food surplus
-Political centralization, there is a formal leader
, What are other species that farm?
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ants. Implies are that farming evolves without intention.
What is important about Cahokia?
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Located outside of St-Louis, USA.
Large complex of mounds and plaza
Short-lived phenomena: boom-and-bust?
Built over 400 years, between A.D. 1000-1400§ Region goes from dispersed
villages, to sudden rise of Cahokia/urbanization, back to small dispersed
villages
Main features: Monk's Mound, central plaza Ample evidence of differential
status, wealth and elite.
Mound 72: Evidence of differential status and wealth, "Birdman",
Human sacrifices: elite had control over material wealth and lives of their
subjects.
What are bands?
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dozens of individuals; foragers; egalitarian; no social stratification.
