Readings:   Bense, chapter 5

                 7,290-year-old bottle gourd from the Windover site, Florida,” by Glen H. Doran, David N. Dickel, Lee A. Newsom. In American Antiquity 55(2): 354-360

 

Questions for Early Archaic Period

-What effect would the invention of the atlatl have on Early Archaic cultures?

-Why do we have so few Early Archaic sites?

-What was the economic structure of Early Archaic cultures, and how do we know?

-What do you think the limiting resource was for Early Archaic cultures?