Americas and Oceania

Americas and Oceania

• Developed in relative isolation to the other early complex societies
• Developed an agricultural base sufficient
• Support growing populations
• Specialized labor
• Political institutions

Americas and Oceania (con)

• Diverse societies
• Long-distance trading networks
• Built elaborate ceremonial centers that reflected a complex region
• Left a rich artistic legacy: pottery, sculpture, metalwork, and painting
• Developed sophisticated knowledge of astronomy and mathematics

Americas and Oceania (con)

• Saw the gradual dissemination of agricultural technology
• spread by Austronesian seafarers who traded and settled throughout the Pacific
• Formed a well-integrated society
• known as Lapita that stretched from New Guinea to Tonga