Arch 100 SFU Midterm 2 STUDY QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS | 2026
UPDATE
Cranial Deformation
Showed Nobility
Potlatch
A Native American celebration meant to show wealth and divide property among the people.
Eating Power through wealth
Noble, Commoners and slaves
Divided hierarchically
ANC Subsistence Strategy
Surplus storage, large scale salmon storage
Stonehenge
Salisbury Plain, England
Henge
An arrangement of megalithic stones in a circle, often surrounded by a ditch.
Parker Pearson hypothesis
Stonehenge = worship dead. Woodhenge= worship alive
Origin of bluestones
, From quarry in wales 140mi away
Moving the bluestone and the sarsens
Theories but no evidence how
Arena/ Early Woodland
Copper beads. Basket weaving
Hopewell/Middle Woodland
Elaborate burial practices. Trade network. Mounds. Art objects made of copper. Elites controlled
trade.
Late Woodland
Mounds. Bow and arrow. Population increase. Sunflowers and wild plants. Storage pits.
Cahokia
Was chiefdom almost state
Mound 51
18k pots. 5k deer. .5M tobacco seeds.
Mound 72
A mound at Cahokia where excavation uncovered an individual buried on a bird-shaped platform
made of shells, as well as mass burials of apparently sacrificial victims.
Chunkey Stones
Game where they threw spears at a stone
AND CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS | 2026
UPDATE
Cranial Deformation
Showed Nobility
Potlatch
A Native American celebration meant to show wealth and divide property among the people.
Eating Power through wealth
Noble, Commoners and slaves
Divided hierarchically
ANC Subsistence Strategy
Surplus storage, large scale salmon storage
Stonehenge
Salisbury Plain, England
Henge
An arrangement of megalithic stones in a circle, often surrounded by a ditch.
Parker Pearson hypothesis
Stonehenge = worship dead. Woodhenge= worship alive
Origin of bluestones
, From quarry in wales 140mi away
Moving the bluestone and the sarsens
Theories but no evidence how
Arena/ Early Woodland
Copper beads. Basket weaving
Hopewell/Middle Woodland
Elaborate burial practices. Trade network. Mounds. Art objects made of copper. Elites controlled
trade.
Late Woodland
Mounds. Bow and arrow. Population increase. Sunflowers and wild plants. Storage pits.
Cahokia
Was chiefdom almost state
Mound 51
18k pots. 5k deer. .5M tobacco seeds.
Mound 72
A mound at Cahokia where excavation uncovered an individual buried on a bird-shaped platform
made of shells, as well as mass burials of apparently sacrificial victims.
Chunkey Stones
Game where they threw spears at a stone
