Exam 2 Flashcards

Question

Yangshao Culture

Answer 1

5000 - 7000 BP Henan and Shaanxi provinces domesticates: millet, hemp, silkworms, dogs, pigs, chickens, cattle, sheep, goats flood-water farming

Answer 2

``` 5000 - 8000 BP Yangshao Culture Shaanxi province houses and cemeteries in clusters cemeteries on hilltops distinct locations for animal pens, storage, pottery kilns, etc -- political authority!! fortified pottery wheel & maker's mark turtle shell divination ```

Answer 3

5000 - 8000 BP Yangshao culture Shaanxi province much like Jiangzhai

Answer 4

indo-european: western groups | turkic: eastern and central groups

Answer 5

``` SE Mongolia 7000 BP sedentary hunting, fishing, farming semi-subterranean quadrangular houses burials under floors ```

Answer 6

many ephemeral lakes | millet domesticated

Answer 7

large, sedentary villages semi-subterranean houses anadromous fish

Answer 8

5300 BP climate is getting drier natural mummies buried w/ possesions domesticated animals: cattle, horses, sheep all are herd animals and multipurpose animals wheeled vehicles

Answer 9

landscape is very flat!!

Answer 10

moose and reindeer hunting | very mobile, not sedentary

Answer 11

mix of small farming and pastoralist societies emphasis on mound (kurgan) burial art style emphasizes animals

Answer 12

5000 - 8000 BP trade is a big deal with Indus Valley & Tigris/Euphrates area wheat and barley sheep and goats

Answer 13

we see small single room houses of mud brick grouped around a courtyard settelments near marshes burials in-between houses dry farming

Answer 14

``` climate getting drier settelments relocate upstream and closer to the mountains fortifications multiroom compounds around courtyard irrigation farming metallurgy children and infants still buried under house adults in cemeteries ```

Answer 15

domesticated in Asia 8000 - 9000 BP reason? utility

Answer 16

5000 BP C Asia utility

Answer 17

5000 BP NE Asia ritual (feasting)

Answer 18

6000 BP | utility

Answer 19

5000 BP China food, utility

Answer 20

5000 - 7000 BP SE Asia utility

Answer 21

SE Asia utility 15,000 - 30,000 BP

Answer 22

9000 BP Indus River Valley utility, ritual

Answer 23

New Guinea 8000 BP status enhancement

Answer 24

Jiangxi Province rice an early domesticate pigs and chickens domesticated too

Answer 25

``` Zhejiang province 7000 BP sedentary rice, water buffalo, chickens cord-marked, red-slipped ceramics hoes out of shoulder blades lacquer ware stilt houses ```

Answer 26

5000 BP Hunan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang provinces earliest reps of austroasiatic language fam

Answer 27

``` SE coast of China Taiwan 6000 - 5000 BP cord marked pottery net sinkers bark beaters deep-sea fishing ```

Answer 28

Melanesia Micronesia Polynesia

Answer 29

New Guinea was only one already occupied by ppl (4000 BP) Austronesians came from Philippines and didn't really mix with Papuans they stayed on the coast also includes Solomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu, & New Caledonia Papuan languages slash and burn farming leads to land clearance crops: taro, bananas, sugar cane lapita pottery: cord detail and red doesn't stay long: wood stone/shell adzes domesticated animals: pigs, dogs, chickens, rats domesticated plants: taro, tam, bananas, breadfruit

Answer 30

3000 BP lapita pottery (ends around 1700 BP) same domesticates as Melanesia E Poly and New Zealand occupied bw 1500 - 1000 BP sweet potato comes from S America Rapa Nui (Easter Island) no coconut or breadfruit originally forested Moai statues on platforms along the coast ``` New Zealand sweet potato domesticated on N island S island hunt and gather many marine resources lots of warfare known for split-figure design art ```

Answer 31

4000 BP prop setteled from phillipines (land terracing, rice farming) marianas red ceramics crops: taro, yam, breadfruit, banana, rice animals: dogs, chickens, pigs, rates Nan Madol Site on Pohnpei island 1200 BP complex chieftain society