Field Note Collaborations for Week Five (follow the guided)

Weekly Study Field Notes

Field notes are a very important part of anthropological research. Anthropologists use their field notes to make records about what they are seeing and thinking while conducting research. For your collaboration you are being asked to make your own field notes, based on the assigned course materials. Each week, as you read the assigned material or watch an assigned video, you will create a new set of field notes in which you are expected to write down such things as important concepts, things that you might have questions about, or even things that you find surprising or interesting. Just like the notes that an anthropologist makes in the field, your notes must be clear and easy to read because you will be sharing them with your peers in the collaboration

Complete the following sections in the spaces below:

First and Last Name:

Payton Smith

Date:

November 2, 2017

Title of Assigned Readings (including chapter numbers) or Videos:

Chapter 13 – An Explosion of Complexity: South America

Chapter 14 – An Explosion of Complexity: North America

Evolutionary Epilogue

Reflections:

-It is amazing that there is “30 shrines and temples at the site, most of which seem to be aligned to the rising of the sun on the summer solstice, the morning on which the sun rises at its northern most point on the horizon. After that day, June 21 or 22, the sun appears to rise successively farther to the south along the horizon.” It shows that astronomy was a dominating factor in their lives.

-The Chimu capital Chan Chan is claimed by Feder to be one of the most impressive urban centers built in the ancient world.

Emerging questions/analyses:

-Why did the Ancient Puebloans abandon Mesa Verde?

-How will technology continue to play a role in human evolution throughout the future?

Important concepts:

-It is believed that Machu Picchu was built by the ninth Inca ruler Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui between A.D. 1450 and 1470, and may have housed as much as 750 people.

-Moche produced one of the first kingdoms in South America around A.D. 100.

-The ancient Puebloans or the Anasazi culture flourished after 100 A.D. along the Chaco River in cliff dwellings and buildings in the forms of enormous Kivas.

-The natives to the Pacific Northwest were considered affluent foragers since they lived in an rich environment which allowed for large social structures. Most of the architecture and art work from the tribes of the Northwest were made of wood.

-“In a sense, all human history is based on the Oldowan stone-tool industry, and all human achievement has been but a series of variations on the theme established 2.5 million years ago on the African savanna.” (Feder, 2012).

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