Lecture Flashcards
(17 cards)
David Crockett
spring from frontier
coonskin cap
Disney - Fess Parker - actor
John Wayne - created movie “Alamo”
Alamo - where Crockett would die in Texas War of Independence of Mexico
Sam Houston
led revolt of Mexican independence
Alamo is where he delayed Mexican advancing
Creek War
David Crockett got involved
left prior to Battle of New Orleans
helped Andrew Jackson
Nashville predators adopted
catfish as a symbol of the time
NHL
what are the four stages of native american cultures
Paleo-Indian Period 11,000-12,000
archaic period 10,000
woodland 1000-500 BC
Mississippian period 900-1600 AD
Paleo Indian
groups of 20
hunting/following megafauna - mammoths/mestadons
Bering Straight Land Bridge - came across (north american land bridge)
genographic project
National Geographic - geolocate people and where they came from over the world
gene code/DNA - trace ancestry across planet
Coats-Hines Mastodon Site
related to Paleo period
found over Williamson County - basically a mammoth
possibly a Mastadon kill site
discovered on bones tool marks
“Gnash” ville predators hockey team
named after Paleo period of sabertooth tigers in this area
Archaic period
Atl-Atl –> spear
earth warmer - mammoths/mastadons hunted to extinction
NA now lacked primary food source –> started hunting smaller games and harvesting vegetation
difference between paelo and archaic - new ways to survive/technology
1st Tennesseains
would move around to hunt - live in cave terraces/caves
popualtion begins become larger because not expending as much energy hunting mastadons
began to bury people - ceremonial
Garabge Mountain
rutherfurd county landfill
pinson mounds - midden mound
“Sauls Mound”
highest mound north of Mexico
woodland period
correspond star constellation
woodland period
presence of ceremonial/burial type mounds - shows thinking about afterlife
development of pottery stabilizes food supply
agriculture - control environment to not roam around anymore
hierarchies become a thing in villages
old stone fort
Manchester, TN
not a fort –> ceremonial in nature
maybe woodland cultures came here to celebrate something - summer solstice aligns in doorway - harvest
item found - bird effigy pipe
Mississippian period
commodity history - corn
Europeans encountered - European accounts
lived along Mississppian basin/TN areas
organized activities in villages
can finds mound in Melville TN - “Monks Mound” - Cahokia - oriented to solstices
human effigy figures
idea that water spider created land masses on earth
chonkee stones - game like lacrosse - wage/bet
Devil Step Hollows Cave
flows to Sequatchee River
lots of cave glyphs
Falcon Warrior
Hernando Desoto
befriended Attawapa (was eventually ambushed by him)
