NA Prehistory Exam 2

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Great Plains Tribes

Shoshone, Lakota, Dakota

NW Tribes

Kwakiutl, Tlingit

SW Tribes

Navajo, Hopi, Yuma

Great Basin Tribes

Paiute, Pomo

Maize reached SW date

4000 BP

Squash reached SW date

1000 BC

Beans reached SW date

500 BC

Gatecliff Rock Shelter

Nevada, 33 stratigraphic layers, precise chronologic point sequence, Mazama Ash Layer

Lovelock Cave

Nevada, ancient lake (Lake Lahontan), Duck Decoys

Danger Cave

Utah, first regional point sequence, earlier points than Gatecliff, excellent preservation

Anasazi Pottery

Gallup Black-on-White

Mogollon Pottery

brownware, brown to red, some cultural cross over with black-on-white, ritual killing**

Hohokam Pottery

buff/light brown clay, course texture

Chaco Cave dates/ shifts

800 AD move in from North, 1130 AD Drought, may have impacted carrying capacity, they left. similarly to Snaketown, AZ, 1130 AD 50 year drought