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Anthro 150: Final

Bell Beaker Pottery
A beaker with a distinctive inverted, bell-shaped profile found across the western part of Europe during the late 3rd millenium BC. The pottery was well-made, usually red or red-brown in color, and ornamented with horizontal bands of incised, excised or impressed patterns. Indicates social/cultural changes in Europe, such as “new internationalism” - long distance connections, spreading ideas such as metallurgy and new types of social prestige.
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Bottle Gourds
large gourds suitable for making vessels, often for water storage
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Chambered Tombs
(Europe) Type of Neolithic monument that consisted of chambers of stone or wood, usually accessible through a portal, covered by earth mounds, and holding hundreds of individuals
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Chiefdom
A society of several thousand individuals organized on institutionalized lines of hierarchal lineages ruled over by a chief.
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Cliff dwellings
Cliff dwelling is the general archaeological term for the habitations of prehistorical peoples, formed by using niches or caves in high cliffs, with more or less excavation or with additions in the way of masonry. Some of the most famous of these are the North American cliff-dwellings, particularly among the canyons of the southwest, in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado and Chihuahua in Mexico, some of which are still used by Native Americans.
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Chinampas
Mesoamerican agricultural method, which used “floating gardens.” Man-made land over water.- Tenochtitlan
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Clovis Population
pertains to the make/strength of knife points and the populations who used them The hunter-gatherers and first colonizers of America. Foragers defined by small projectile points and tools. (13,100 - 12,900 ya) Thought to have crossed by water on the Bering straight from Asia.
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Codex (codecies)
accordion fold books, used by Mesopotamians, made out of bark paper or animal parchment pages and enclosed in wooden covers
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Colossal stone heads
Artwork from the Olmec Civilizations. 17 have been found to date, and no two are alike. • They were originally thought to be ball players, but evidence proves that they are depicted as rulers, dressed as ball players.
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Corded Ware pottery
Pottery adorned with cord-impressed decoration, indicating a shift in burial practice and new concern for expression of status Culture found in Central Europe, mainly Germany and Poland. Refers to the characteristic pottery of the era: twisted cord was impressed into the wet clay to create various decorative patterns and motifs. Indicated a shift in burial practice and new concern for expression of status.
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Hauberg Stela:
One of the first dated monuments that depict the Vision Serpent’s connection to Mayan bloodletting. • (AD 197), on which king Bone Rabbit is associated with the rain god, autosacrifice, agricultural fertility, world renewal, and human sacrifice, all important in later Maya rule and warfare. Such monuments increase after AD 250, marking the transition to the Classic period.
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Toltecs:
Mesoamerican culture that dominated in Tula. The Aztec culture followed and saw the Toltecs as intellectual and cultural predecessors.
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Hohokam:
(AD 700-1450) Civilization from South West America(Arizona). Known for large permanent settlements dependent on complex irrigation networks and united by shared iconography - farmers: beans, corn, agave barley
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Pre-clovis populations:
Term used by archeologists which refers to the founding populations of the Americas. Debate whether this culture and people really existed. (Before the used of Clovis points)
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