CLAS 2P32 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ethnoarchaeology, Mycenaean Greece, Anax

• School: Brock University
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLAS 2P32
• Professor: R.Angus Smith

Document Summary

Feb 4th: from egalitarian to hierarchical (society in which people are more or less equal (simple) to your birth status in society (complex)) Scale up to a few thousand members. Many individual communities tied together through kinship. Difference in social status based on lineage (who your related too) Senior lineage governed by a chief: rank based on relationship to chief. Powerful ruler backed by laws and force. Not necessarily kin-based (your son can be voted into power however the people still have a vote and he may not get chosen even though his dad was in power of state) We can get from this; wanax, lawagetas, hequetas, damos, doeros (help up reconstruct this period) Using momentums and their relationship to each other and the development over time to make up the social organization, through time. Sites from 0. 25 to 25 hectares (2. 7 acres per hectare) 5 categories from hamlets to large towns.