ANTH 003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Moe Williams, Decision-Making, Voronoi Diagram
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Introduction or acquisition of goods, services, food. Tell about a lot of different aspects of culture. Settlement patterns: patterns of locations of sites. Settlement pattern methods: processual archaeology leads to this systematic approach. Map size of center dependent on various aspects (number of rooms, etc. ) Expect sites of same scale to be evenly distributed on a landscape. Other factors that make this not true (geographic topology) Flow of goods and materials between locations. Gis package, takes two nearest neighbor sites, split difference and draw perpendicular line to it. Ascribed status: social standing or prestige based inheritance or hereditary factors. Achieved status: social standing or prestige based on one"s abilities/accomplishments. Social organization: division of society into smaller social units . Kinship systems: lineage, clan, phratries matrilineal and patrilineal kin. Social organization: types (look at graph on ppt) Individuals attempt to monopolize sources of power. Horizontal social divisions between lineages, coresident groups, or other collectives.