ANTH 245 Final Exam Study Guide
Plains Culture Area
Environment
Plano/Folsom culture
Bison drives
Plains Archaic: McKean Site
Plains Woodland
Horticulture
Pottery
Plains Villages
People of the Southeast
Environment
Pre-Clovis: Topper, Cactus Hill
Paleoindian-Dust Cave
Little Salt Springs, FL
Early Archaic
Icehouse Bottom, TN
Middle Archaic in the Southeast
Shell Mound Archaic
Read, Indian Knoll
Sapelo Island
Stallings Island
Late Archaic in the Southeast
Poverty Point Culture
Midwest and Upper Great Lakes
Environment
Paleoindian
Late Archaic Burial Complexes
Woodland
Fort Ancient & Oneota Cultures
Early Woodland and the Adena
Pottery-grit tempered
Trade and Exchange
Larger Populations
Burial & Effigy Mounds
Middle Woodland and the Hopewell
Intensification of Adena traits
Mounds and Earthworks
Artifacts and Trade
Hopewell Interaction Sphere
Mississippian Complexity
Maize-beans-squash
Pottery-shell tempered
Large Populations
Platform Mounds
Sedentary Period
Southern Ceremonial Cult
Cahokia & Moundville
City states
Mississippian Collapse
Northeast and MidAtlantic
Environment
Paleoindian-Debert, Shawnee-Minisink
Archaic/Gulf of Maine Archaic
Pine Lake
Early/Middle Woodland
Horticulture/villages
Late Woodland
Three Sisters
Palisaded Villages
Owasco, Algonkian and Iroquois
Origins
Iroquois Confederacy
Post Contact Native Peoples/Archaeology of
European Contact
Historical Archaeology
Written Records
Native Americans
African Americans
Burials
Urban & Rural settings
Maritime Studies
Syncretic vs. Acculturation Theory
Future of Archaeology/Cultural Resource
Management
Preservation and Protection
Antiquities Act 1906
Archaeological Resources
Protection Act 1979
Resource Identification & Management
National Historic Preservation
Act 1966
Mitigation
Reservoir Salvage Act 1960
Archaeological and Historic
Preservation Act 1974
Repatriation
Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act 1990
Movies
“Cannibals in the Canyon”
“The Great Hopewell Road”
“Moundville”
“Native Americans of the Northeast”
Presentation Topics:
Connection between Mesoamerican and the SW
PreClovis and Clovis theories
Pine Lake site and Ground Penetrating Radar
Comparison of Hohokam, Anasazi and Mogollon
Prehistoric Shelters
Crow Creek Massacre
Vikings
Arctic Cultures
Iroquois
Potential Essay Questions (there will be three on the
exam)
1. What is the Plains culture area and what is the
culture history for this region?
2. Describe the major changes during the Archaic
period in the Eastern U.S.
3. Describe the Hopewell complex. What is meant
by the Hopewell Interaction Sphere?
4. What are the theories surrounding the origins of
the Iroquois?
5. Describe why Poverty Point is such a significant
site.
6. Describe three cultures/sites/changes in the
Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region.
7. What are the differences between syncretic and
acculturation theories of Historic Archaeology?
8. What is the significance of the Archaeological
Resources Protection Act to Cultural Resource
Management?
9. What caused the Mississippian collapse?