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Sites

100

dates to ~16,560 BP, and includes stemmed points, bifaces, blades and flake tools. Medium and large mammal bones are found in pits with charcoal. 

What is Cooper's Ferry?

200

A Pennsylvania site dating to 14.3 kya with lots of different kinds of stone tools including non-local stone. Also evidence for hearths and cordage. 

What is Meadowcroft Rockshelter?

300

at 21.7-16.7 kya it is a very old site. It holds over 150,000 stone artifacts including projectile points, blades, and cores. 

What is the Gault site?

400

Site ~14,270 BP which contains basketry, hides, cordage, rope, wooden pegs, and mountain sheep bones made into tools. Human activity confirmed by coprolites. 

What is the Paisely 5-Mile point caves?

500

This site may have acted as a place of trade because of the large numbers of nonlocal tools and its central location between two other sites with longer occupations. 

What is Rucker's Bottom?

Time Periods

100

at least between 21,000 years and 23,000 years BP

Human arrival to the Americas

200

18,000kya-13kya

early paleoindian

300

13kya to 12.9kya 

Middle paleoindian

400

3,000 bp to 1500 CE 

woodland period

500

8,000 bp to 5,000 bp

middle archaic period

Covert the Date

100

1950 CE

Trick question, this is the year that we take as the " present" marker. It does not need to be changed 

200

1,000 BCE

2950 BP

300

15,000 BP

13,050 BCE

400

300 BP

1650 CE

500

4000 BCE

5950 BP

What was life like?

100

They were at least 16,700 BP years old and spread quickly across the continent along major rivers. Small bands of people who were very mobile and focused on local stone sources.  

What are early paleoindian societies in the east?

200

This period begins in the 1500s with the arrival of Spanish conquistadors 

What is the colonial period?

300

They lived side by side by humans for almost 8,000 years, and while they may have been hunted there are only 16 kill sites in the archaeological record. They likely disappeared due to climactic changes. 

What are Megafauna?

400

At this time people were staying in one place longer, growing the population, and hunting a large range of animals. Nonlocal stone suggests long distance trade in this time. 

What is Middle Paleoindian Societies?

500

We no longer use this term to refer to 13.5kya-12.9kya because it boils a whole world down to one, specific type of projectile point. 

What is Clovis Culture?

Misc.

100

What are the four fields of anthropology?

Linguistics

Bioanth

Archeo

Cultural

200

What are the four characteristics of anthropological study?

Cultural relativism

Etic/emic

Participant observation

Holism 

300

A period in which temperatures returned for a short period to those of the ice age. It disrupted societies and led to more mobility. 

What is the younger dryas?

400

One of the earliest mound constructions. It contains circles of earth and burial mounts, the tallest of which is 20 feet tall. 

What is Watson Break Site?

500

A mound site 8,000 years ago which has 880 individuals buried within it. Everyone is buried in a similar way. 

What is Koster Site?