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ASB 222 Module 1-7 Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
Earthworks/Land Art - answer✔✔Outdoor works that use the earth and natural materials as their
medium
Hopewell: communal ceremonial centers perhaps used to tie disperse community together.
Adena: one of first to build earthworks
Mounds - answer✔✔a constructed hill, normally over a burial site
Hopewell: tripartite structure, expressed closure, charnel houses, caches of ceremonial objects
Poverty Point, LA - answer✔✔Earthwork 2K years prior to Hopewell - type of Adena
Adena Mounds - answer✔✔Adena and Hopewell
500 b.c.-400 a.d. - Ohio River Valleyflat-topped hills formed circles, squares, or other shapes
and were 350 ft across.
Ceremonial enclosures = not defensive works. Surrounded burial mounds or stood alone
Important tombs log- lined, corpse painted, pipes and tablets engraved with symbols
Some buried in death huts that were burned down ceremoniously
Most were communal mounds and generations added to it.
Not as complex as Hopewell
Hopewell Subsistence System - answer✔✔evidenced by little midden deveolopment
Small, Dispersed hamlets
Farming local crops
Wild game: deer
Wild plants: nuts
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Types and Forms of Hopewell earthworks - answer✔✔elaborate mounds, causeways, "forts",
octagons, circles, squares, often tripartite
Scale was huge
Reasons for building earthworks and mounds - answer✔✔perhaps signified ancestral passage to
underworld
make dispersed community more concrete
some segmentation- perhaps signifying different clan participation
mark ceremonial event
established social and territorial boundaries
Cahokia - answer✔✔Mississippian settlement near present-day East St. Louis, home to as many
as 25,000 Native Americans
native american sacred traditions have roots here.
Religious leaders and rulers may have inherited power -richly decorated graves
Collapsed in 1250
Rich artistic tradition, survived in other cultures right up to European explorers arrived in 1550s
in South and Southeast
Weather too harsh to cultivate large civilizations like Maya or Aztec
Long term trend toward greater political elaboration, degree of social ranking and interdepence
Enchanted Objects - answer✔✔ritual object that had own power to communicate with
supernatural
identified by craftmanship:
Polished shinyness
Form
Color
Ornamentation
made of exotic material obtained by 'power questing"
Power questing - answer✔✔Making journeys to powerful places for personal prestige
Beyond 'known world'
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Pass through territories of different peoples
Physically challenging
Spiritual journey
Ritual Objects and their purpose - answer✔✔-Performance Appropriate ornamentation for ritual
garments that have now decayed
Musical instruments
-Participation attendees may have needed particular item- copper ear spools
Large caches of stone pipes-
Analogy- the smoking may indicate a ceremonial use. Similar usage of ceremonial smoking in
modern tribes
-Symbols of social or ritual affiliation
-Symbols of authority?
Charnel House - answer✔✔Basins lined in clay used for cremation
Ranked society - answer✔✔Ascribed status
Kin-based
Sanctified through mythological descent
Hierarchical order of status positions
Socially defined priviledges, responsibilities and authorities associated with these positions
Non elite autonomous in many areas of life
Archaeological evidence for hierarchy - answer✔✔Lifestyle- house style, diet, material culture
Mortuary remains-grave location, elaborate treatment, adornment,
Power - access location, control over labor, control over life an death
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Adena and Hopewell - Elaborate mortuary complexes-Prominent leaders may have been buried
there
Mississippian - elaborate graves thatched temple and enormous plaza, ceremonial complex
Chacoan - highly planned civic structures towns, irrigation, roads, burials
Hohokam - answer✔✔Hohokam identified as:
Farmers in large southern AZ/Pheonix area with same agricultural strategies
Irrigation networks
Unique artifact styles - pottery
Public buildings
Platform mounds
- Not sure if they spoke same language or considered themselves same ethnic group
Hohokam irrigation canals - answer✔✔2nd only to Peru
No evidence of major government organization or societal complexity
No graves or dwelling of high status individuals signalling a bureaucracy
demarcated group of farmers who cooperated to make canals work
Effect of irrigation on Hohokam society - answer✔✔Allowed large, dense settlement
Huge labor investment
reliable water supply
Longest occupation in SW
Production and distribution of Hohokam pottery - answer✔✔Able to classify source of clay and
temper to 5 distinct areas which produced diff types of pots
Pots were distributed widely
Sourcing pottery - answer✔✔Characterize the temper
Match temper to natural source
Confirm pottery groupings based on temper with clay chemistry - can confirm source
Hohokam Ballcourts - answer✔✔Ballcourt network across southern and central AZ - diff
ecologic zones, diff products. -near central plazas - open air markets basis for large scale trade
network of specialized goods
ASB 222 Module 1-7 Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
Earthworks/Land Art - answer✔✔Outdoor works that use the earth and natural materials as their
medium
Hopewell: communal ceremonial centers perhaps used to tie disperse community together.
Adena: one of first to build earthworks
Mounds - answer✔✔a constructed hill, normally over a burial site
Hopewell: tripartite structure, expressed closure, charnel houses, caches of ceremonial objects
Poverty Point, LA - answer✔✔Earthwork 2K years prior to Hopewell - type of Adena
Adena Mounds - answer✔✔Adena and Hopewell
500 b.c.-400 a.d. - Ohio River Valleyflat-topped hills formed circles, squares, or other shapes
and were 350 ft across.
Ceremonial enclosures = not defensive works. Surrounded burial mounds or stood alone
Important tombs log- lined, corpse painted, pipes and tablets engraved with symbols
Some buried in death huts that were burned down ceremoniously
Most were communal mounds and generations added to it.
Not as complex as Hopewell
Hopewell Subsistence System - answer✔✔evidenced by little midden deveolopment
Small, Dispersed hamlets
Farming local crops
Wild game: deer
Wild plants: nuts
, THEBRIGHT EXAM SOLUTIONS 8/20/2024 8:37 PM
Types and Forms of Hopewell earthworks - answer✔✔elaborate mounds, causeways, "forts",
octagons, circles, squares, often tripartite
Scale was huge
Reasons for building earthworks and mounds - answer✔✔perhaps signified ancestral passage to
underworld
make dispersed community more concrete
some segmentation- perhaps signifying different clan participation
mark ceremonial event
established social and territorial boundaries
Cahokia - answer✔✔Mississippian settlement near present-day East St. Louis, home to as many
as 25,000 Native Americans
native american sacred traditions have roots here.
Religious leaders and rulers may have inherited power -richly decorated graves
Collapsed in 1250
Rich artistic tradition, survived in other cultures right up to European explorers arrived in 1550s
in South and Southeast
Weather too harsh to cultivate large civilizations like Maya or Aztec
Long term trend toward greater political elaboration, degree of social ranking and interdepence
Enchanted Objects - answer✔✔ritual object that had own power to communicate with
supernatural
identified by craftmanship:
Polished shinyness
Form
Color
Ornamentation
made of exotic material obtained by 'power questing"
Power questing - answer✔✔Making journeys to powerful places for personal prestige
Beyond 'known world'
, THEBRIGHT EXAM SOLUTIONS 8/20/2024 8:37 PM
Pass through territories of different peoples
Physically challenging
Spiritual journey
Ritual Objects and their purpose - answer✔✔-Performance Appropriate ornamentation for ritual
garments that have now decayed
Musical instruments
-Participation attendees may have needed particular item- copper ear spools
Large caches of stone pipes-
Analogy- the smoking may indicate a ceremonial use. Similar usage of ceremonial smoking in
modern tribes
-Symbols of social or ritual affiliation
-Symbols of authority?
Charnel House - answer✔✔Basins lined in clay used for cremation
Ranked society - answer✔✔Ascribed status
Kin-based
Sanctified through mythological descent
Hierarchical order of status positions
Socially defined priviledges, responsibilities and authorities associated with these positions
Non elite autonomous in many areas of life
Archaeological evidence for hierarchy - answer✔✔Lifestyle- house style, diet, material culture
Mortuary remains-grave location, elaborate treatment, adornment,
Power - access location, control over labor, control over life an death
, THEBRIGHT EXAM SOLUTIONS 8/20/2024 8:37 PM
Adena and Hopewell - Elaborate mortuary complexes-Prominent leaders may have been buried
there
Mississippian - elaborate graves thatched temple and enormous plaza, ceremonial complex
Chacoan - highly planned civic structures towns, irrigation, roads, burials
Hohokam - answer✔✔Hohokam identified as:
Farmers in large southern AZ/Pheonix area with same agricultural strategies
Irrigation networks
Unique artifact styles - pottery
Public buildings
Platform mounds
- Not sure if they spoke same language or considered themselves same ethnic group
Hohokam irrigation canals - answer✔✔2nd only to Peru
No evidence of major government organization or societal complexity
No graves or dwelling of high status individuals signalling a bureaucracy
demarcated group of farmers who cooperated to make canals work
Effect of irrigation on Hohokam society - answer✔✔Allowed large, dense settlement
Huge labor investment
reliable water supply
Longest occupation in SW
Production and distribution of Hohokam pottery - answer✔✔Able to classify source of clay and
temper to 5 distinct areas which produced diff types of pots
Pots were distributed widely
Sourcing pottery - answer✔✔Characterize the temper
Match temper to natural source
Confirm pottery groupings based on temper with clay chemistry - can confirm source
Hohokam Ballcourts - answer✔✔Ballcourt network across southern and central AZ - diff
ecologic zones, diff products. -near central plazas - open air markets basis for large scale trade
network of specialized goods
