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29 Cards in this Set
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3 Sisters, complementary growth |
corn beans squash |
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Maize |
high in calories, lacks amino acids |
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Beans |
amino acids |
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Squash |
rich in fat. vitamins, minerals |
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site: Guila Naquitz Cave, Mexico |
Kent Flannery. Preceramic seasonal campsite, no maize cobs |
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Tehuacan Valley, Mexico |
Scotty McNeish. Evolution/origins of Maize |
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Teosinte |
A tall annual grass, native to Mexico and C. America, closest relative to maize |
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MesoAmerica |
Turkey, turquoise, parrots, coaco |
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Quchua |
warm, low valleys ideal for corn growing |
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Suni Highland |
potatoes and quinoa |
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Puna high grassland |
camelids |
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Montaña |
Eastern slopes of Andes, wet tropical conditions, diverse plants, manioc root |
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Guitarro Cave, Highland Peru |
origins of domestication Andes. wild tubers, cross Andes communication |
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Cerro Juanaqueña, Mexico |
hill or trincheras site. Houses and Gardens 600 grinding slabs |
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site: Las Capas, Arizona |
village with evidence of intensive maize agriculture, canal system, |
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Optimal Foraging Theory |
humans act on basis of self interest to maximize efficiency in collecting and processing resources |
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criba orbitalia illness |
dietary derived disease, iron deficiency, anemia, protein deficiency |
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Consequences of food production |
Sedentism Pop growth Increased mortality longer life span fertility and birth spacing weaning, child labor, leadership& social hierarchies, Storage |
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Macrobands |
populations gather during summer rainy season, abundent resources |
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microbands |
winter dry season, scarce resources, populations disperse |
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classes of pottery |
earthenware stoneware porcelain |
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paleo indian lifeways |
large mammal hunters |
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archaic |
from hunter gath to farmers |
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Zea Mays |
maize ancestor |
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Hohokam |
Desert farmers S Arizona. Wattle and Daub Construction, Mono and Metate. Red on Buff pottery. Irrigation systems. |
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site: Snaketown: Hohokam |
Emil Haury. Public structures. adobe, ballcourt, cremation. massive flooding of canals |
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Ancestral Puebloans (Anasazi) |
Kivas. Black on white pottery. Above ground adobes |
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site: Chaco Canyon |
"Great House" apt like building. Stone masonry. |
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Pueblo Bonito |
largest great house of Chaco canyon. |
