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| Question | Answer |
| Uruk (5th millenium BCE-3000 BCE) | -Lower Mespotamian site -1st genuine city -development of writing (i.r.: Cuneiform) -clear evidence of: centralized gov't, ≠ distribution of wealth, 24/7 military, religious specialization |
| Head-Smashed-In | -Buffalo kill site. -buffalo cliff run. -now a bone bed because of the high number of buffaloes that weren't butcher |
| Jones Miller Bison Bonebed | -41,000 Bison antiquus specimens -Processing Piles -Full extensive dis-articulation, likely leading to extensive butchery -Bones heavily gnawed by carnivores |
| Great Zimbabwe (1,300 CE-1,400 CE) | -Large, enclosed settlement which consisted of dhaka huts made of clay/gravel -Trade hub (glazed pottery from China/Iran, glass beads from Syria, gold from surrounding regions) |
| Giza | -Old Kingdom Egyptian tomb site for 4th dynasty Pharaoh Khufu -Sphinx near by (protects tomb & face depicted leaders) |
| Nineveh | -Biblical site in northern Iraq discovered by Austen Henry Layard -Assyrian capital city -becomes a myth after it disappears bcuz it got sacked -Royal Assyrian Library |
| Carnac | - Rich coastal resources -Mounds and burials -Complex culture -Menhirs (By 3800 BC large Menhirs were toppled over and used for chambered tombs -reuse of resources) |
| Sarqqara | -Site from Early Dynastic Egypt -Step Pyramid of Djoser built here (1st step pyramid and oldest stone building of its size) |
| Newgrange, Ireland (3200 BCE) | -Megalithic Passage Tomb w/ mound on top of the structure - 97 kerbstones, some of which are richly decorated with megalithic art -Roofbox (Where winter solstice sun shines through and illuminates the chamber w/in) |
| Thebes and Karnak Karnak= religious site near Thebes w/ temples & other structures started on the mid. kingdom & finished in Ptolemaic) | -Associated with Egyptian ruler Mentuhotep who reunited the Egyptian state (1st/2nd/ intermed. periods/ mid. kingdom) -return to power in Thebes by about 1450 BCE w/ Ahmose |
| Varna Cemetery (Black Sea Coast of Bulgaria) | -gold grave goods (approx. 14 lbs found in excavation) & others of stone, shell, etc. -mostly male graves w/ heads toward Black Sea -Evidence of ascribed status |
| Avebury, England | |
| Stonehenge, England | |
| Easter Island (inhabited by 900 CE) | -one of the last islands to be inhabited during Austronesian dispersal -devastation/ decline (diff. theories) - Moai |
| Dabenkeng | -coastal site on northern part of Taiwan in which a culture was named after (sites btween 3,000-2,000 BCE) |
| Danger Cave | -site in Utah -oldest archaeological remains of dogs known in the Americas date to Early/ Mid. Archaic periods (8,000-7,000 BCE) & other sites |
| Icehouse Bottom (c. 8,5000-6,000 BCE) | -site near the Little Tennesse River in N. America that was occupied by seasonally camping H/G groups -shelters: wood, brush, cane matting, skins. |
| Windover Pond (6,000-5,000 BCE) | -cemetery in a wooded marsh, underlain by peat deposits in Florida -saturdated (wet) human remains= beautifully preserved by this environment |
| Hogup Cave (7,000- 1,4000 BCE) | -Great Basin site -evidence of human activity (i.e.: preservation of wood, hide, feathers, veggie fibers, reeds, bulrushes & willow withes) |
| Fort Rock Cave | -Great Basin site (S. Oregon) -several dozen sandals made of sagebrush bark fiber found -evidence of certain materials procurement/ processing |
| Poverty Point | -massive mound building site in lower Miss. Valley -debated if they represent: social organizations, pop. size, occupational duration |
| Olsen-Chubbuck | -Paleoindian animal slaughter site in eastern Colorado -testimony to both the high amount of bison on landscape & efficiency of hunters |
| Guila Naquitz Cave (10,700 and 8620 BP) | -Paleoindian site in Oaxaca highlands of MesoAmerica -evidence of plant reliance as food resource (i.e.:Teosinte,Squash, Beans, Chili pepper) |
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