Exam 7: The North American Southwest

Why did ceramics become preferable to basketry in BM III and into P I?

Which of these Southwestern peoples were most associated with canal irrigation?

A well-known Hohokam site in Arizona is called _____________________________.

What is jacal?

What types of material remains suggest that Chaco Canyon had a trade relationship with Mesoamerica?

What were the seven Ancestral Pueblo periods discussed in Chapter 7?

In subsequent chapters, we will see a number of instances of violence and warfare in prehistoric societies around the globe. Based on the discussion in Chapter 7, how much violence and warfare occurred in the Ancestral Pueblo region? What evidence can you cite?

The taller stature of Chaco's great house inhabitants suggests:

Extraordinary organic materials preserve in the Southwest because of its dry conditions.

According to human behavioral ecology, ____________ has initially higher marginal costs than ____________.

Which of these techniques would be best applied to dating Mimbres ceramics?

In the North American Southwest, the Paleoamerican period is followed by the Archaic period.

________________ Pueblo had three roomblock structures divided by a stream (now dry).

What archaeological evidence suggests social stratification, or a separation between elites and commoners, in and around Chaco Canyon? Is there widespread agreement about the nature of political power in the canyon?

The central great houses of Chaco are sometimes referred to as ______________________.