CAS AR 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Social Stratification, Mass Production, Ziggurat
25 Mar 2017
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This changed the way people think about archeology: carter gained worldwide attention. Important: how the media affected woolley coming out with his data. Woolley"s data was reinterpreted: catherine reconstructed the headdresses of puabi"s. Attendant: the great death pit, woolly interpreted that there were 6 men and 68 women. Found some gold but wanted to come up with a super elaborate story to make up for not finding a lot of gold. Since about 60 of them had cups concluded they drank poison to sacrifice themselves because they were so sad that their king died. Wanted to make his story bigger than it actually was: cat scans carried out by the upm by janet monge, Archeology, politics, and nationalism of south asia: indus valley and beyond: Note: urban center make a state level society. Indus river is the reason we have cities around this area: sometimes there is significant flooding, effects the placement of cities, many ppl speak different languages.
