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Reason for the scarcity of organics in the Eastern Woodlands |
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Acidic soil and moisture. |
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Diagnostic projectile points of Eastern Woodland Archaic in chronological order |
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Hardened Stem, Dalton Fluted, Cumberland, Side-Corner, Bifurcate Base. |
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Significance of Sloan site? |
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Describe timer period, occupation, and subsistence strategies of Icehouse Bottom site. |
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Early Archaic. Base camp. Hickory nuts. |
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Importance of Koster site in Illinois River Valley? |
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Best example of a site occupied through all 3 periods. |
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Two criteria used to identify sedentary settlment |
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Substantial dwellings, cemeteries. |
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Most important food of riverine Southeast adaptations |
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Freshwater fish and shell fish. |
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Significance of Windover site |
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Preservation of organic human remains in a wet site, 5-6000BC. |
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Explanation of bluff-top cemeteries under low mounds? |
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Hereditary rights to resources. |
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Significance of L'Anse Amour site in Labradour |
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Land rose up. Melting ice preserved. |
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