12,000 Years of Native American History Bob Shamy

1. 12,000 Years of Native American History Bob Shamy

2. Part 1: Using Anthropology as the Scientific Basis for the Study of Culture Part 2: New Jersey History – 12000 BP to European Contact

3. What is Anthropology? • Physical Anthropology • Primatology • The study of primates. • Paleoanthropology • The study of human evolution • Human Variation Studies: The study of the physical differences in humans. • Cultural Anthropology • A.K.A. Ethnology • Ethnography • A.K.A. Participant Observation • Linguistics • Archaeology

4. What is Culture? The Culture Concept: Culture is understood as the learned body of knowledge, beliefs, and customs that people use to organize their natural and social environments. • Material Traits • Tools • Clothing • Housing • ETC. • Non-Material Traits • Attitudes • Behaviors • Beliefs • ETC.

5. Culture: No overall consensus as to its meaning…over 300 definitions. • An Autonomous Population Unit • Distinct Cultural Characteristics • Shared Traditions • Problems: • Cannot Define Cultural Boundaries • Cultures are Not Closed and Self-Contained • Cultures are in Constant Contact and Change • Cultures are Provisional and Transitory • Many are Extinct

6. Culture is a Survival Mechanism • An infinite variation in cultural expression, but each meets a certain need – Food, Shelter, Resolve Conflict, Solace, etc. • A blueprint of our customs and ideas for living. • It is packaged and delivered by symbols. • It is pervasive - we are often unaware but it surrounds and envelops us. • Items and ideas meld together and make sense.

7. Fine Arts Storytelling Subsistence Pattern Dancing-Games-Cooking-Dress Observable Material Elements May Include Behavioral Characteristics, i.e. Religion, Handshakes, etc. Surface Culture Conception of Beauty – Ideals of Governing – Patterns of Raising Children Notions of Modesty – Cosmology – Relationship to Animals Patterns of Superior/Subordinate Relations – Courtship Practices Conception of Justice – Incentives to Work – Notions of Leadership Tempo of Work – Patterns of Group Decision Making Conception of Status Mobility (Class, Caste, etc.) – Eye Behavior Roles in Relation to Status by Age, Sex, Class, Occupation, Kinship, etc. Conversational Patterns in Various Social Contexts – Conception of Past and Future Nature of Friendship – Conception of Self – Preference for Competition or Cooperation Patterns of Handling Emotions AND MUCH, MUCH MORE… Deep Culture

8. Cultural Anthropology-Ethnology • Ethnography-Participant Observation • Social Organization • Subsistence Pattern • Economic Pattern • Political Organization • Religion • ETC.

9. ETHNOCENTRISM/CULTURAL BIAS Do these concepts inherently reinforce bias when we teach history? UNDEVELOPED/DEVELOPED PRIMITIVE RACE

10. Who Were the Indians of New Jersey?

15. How do we know where a glacier stops?

16. Ice sheet on Ellsmere Island, Canada

17. From Tundra: Semi-frozen Sub Arctic Plain To: Deciduous Forests

18. Changing Flora and Fauna Over Time

19. The Shoreline 18,000 Years Ago

20. New Jersey During the Late Pleistocene Epoch Circa 15,000-10,000 BP

22. Glacial Age Fauna

24. Hypothetical Eastern Woodland Local Sequence in Archaeology Woodland Period 2000 BP Archaic Period 8000 BP Paleo Indian Period 12000 BP

25. Artifact Typology An Alachua Point Range 5000-2000 BP

26. An Archaeological Local Sequence

28. The Evolution of Projectile Point Typology

29. An Archaeological Local Sequence in NJ Woodland Period Circa 1000 BP Raising Corn, Beans and Squash Circa2000 BP Cultivating Grasses, Bow and Arrow Circa 3000 BP Pottery Archaic Hunters and Gatherers Semi Nomadic Circa 8000 BP Paleo Indians Nomadic Herd Hunters Circa 12000 BP

30. Paleo Indians And Mega Fauna

31. PALEO INDIAN TOOL KIT

32. Paleo Indian Projectile Points

33. An Archaeological Local Sequence in NJ Woodland Period Circa 1000 BP Raising Corn, Beans and Squash Circa2000 BP Cultivating Grasses, Bow and Arrow Circa 3000 BP Pottery Archaic Hunters and Gatherers Semi Nomadic Seasonal Campgrounds Circa 8000 BP Paleo Indians Nomadic Herd Hunters Circa 12000 BP

34. ARCHAIC PERIOD POINTS

36. The Style and Diversity of Projectile Points and Tool Kits Expands With Each Period Tools became varied and include more ground, polished and bone tools. They developed grooved axes, pestles, etc. Fishing becomes more important and net sinkers and fish hooks appear.

37. An Archaeological Local Sequence in NJ Woodland Period Circa 1000 BP Raising Corn, Beans and Squash Circa2000 BP Cultivating Grasses, Bow and Arrow Circa 3000 BP Pottery Archaic Hunters and Gatherers Semi Nomadic Circa 8000 BP Paleo Indians Nomadic Herd Hunters Circa 12000 BP

38. A Mississippian Monolithic Ax L: 13" Spiro MoundsLe Flore Co., OK Under 10 have been found nationwide.

39. Burial and Ceremonial Mounds Great Serpent Mound Ohio

40. Locations of Mound in the Mississippi Ohio Valleys The Mound Builders Heavily Influenced the Native Cultures in the East Coast

41. The Three Sisters of the Garden

42. WOODLAND POINTS

43. Woodland Period Pottery Early Middle Late

44. Guns, Germs and Steel The First Globalization

45. EUROPEAN CONTACT

46. FROM THIS

47. TO THIS

48. COLONIAL ARTIFACTS

49. 18th and 19TH CENTURY HOMES

50. LIGHTING BOTTLE AND GLASS MANUFACTURE