ASB 222: MODULE 4 QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE
ANSWERS
"The big bang" (archaeological sense) correct answer - AD 1050 - 1100 (Cohmann
phase)
- largest population
- 72% of mound labor (excluding monks)
- most other mound sites (except E. at Louis)
Adena mounds correct answer (in Ohio Valley) flourished more and more
throughout the 700 years of their prime. They loved to honor their dead. The
Great Serpent Mound is about a ¼ mile long and coiled to look like a serpent.
Their mounds took a long time to make and had careful layering that often
contained tools, weapons, ornaments, pottery pieces and carvings.
Archaeological evidence for hierarchy correct answer Evidence for hierarchy
- lifestyle
- mortuary remains
- control over labor (tricky)
- control over life/death (tricky)
Burials and social stratification, Chaco correct answer Only 650 all together
5 very high status 1 female- 1 child
2 tombs in Pueblo Bonito
16 individuals over baords, 2 underneath
4 rooms closed off, 21 bodies
Turquoise mostly with adult males
, High anking individuals, same pathologies
Organizational implications?
Cahokia correct answer The largest ceremonial site in ancient North America
located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River across from present-day St.
Louis where thousands of inhabitants built hundreds of earthen mounds between
about AD 800 and AD 1500.
Chaco Canyon population correct answer - Canyon - social unit.
- Pop estimates- 1000-6000. Why?Residence,
Storage,
Show
- Maximal pop estimates for Pueblo Bonito range 100 to several hundred
- No agreement on the max population that would have been supported in the
Canyon
- Farming in local environment support 2000 ppl
Chaco Imports correct answer Trade within Chaco communities
Ceramic
Chipped stone
Turquise
Cors
Copper bells
Macaws
Cacao
Trade moves in along roads, not out
ANSWERS
"The big bang" (archaeological sense) correct answer - AD 1050 - 1100 (Cohmann
phase)
- largest population
- 72% of mound labor (excluding monks)
- most other mound sites (except E. at Louis)
Adena mounds correct answer (in Ohio Valley) flourished more and more
throughout the 700 years of their prime. They loved to honor their dead. The
Great Serpent Mound is about a ¼ mile long and coiled to look like a serpent.
Their mounds took a long time to make and had careful layering that often
contained tools, weapons, ornaments, pottery pieces and carvings.
Archaeological evidence for hierarchy correct answer Evidence for hierarchy
- lifestyle
- mortuary remains
- control over labor (tricky)
- control over life/death (tricky)
Burials and social stratification, Chaco correct answer Only 650 all together
5 very high status 1 female- 1 child
2 tombs in Pueblo Bonito
16 individuals over baords, 2 underneath
4 rooms closed off, 21 bodies
Turquoise mostly with adult males
, High anking individuals, same pathologies
Organizational implications?
Cahokia correct answer The largest ceremonial site in ancient North America
located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River across from present-day St.
Louis where thousands of inhabitants built hundreds of earthen mounds between
about AD 800 and AD 1500.
Chaco Canyon population correct answer - Canyon - social unit.
- Pop estimates- 1000-6000. Why?Residence,
Storage,
Show
- Maximal pop estimates for Pueblo Bonito range 100 to several hundred
- No agreement on the max population that would have been supported in the
Canyon
- Farming in local environment support 2000 ppl
Chaco Imports correct answer Trade within Chaco communities
Ceramic
Chipped stone
Turquise
Cors
Copper bells
Macaws
Cacao
Trade moves in along roads, not out
