ANTH 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Neoteny, Sedentism, People Nation

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1002
• Professor: Paul Thibaudeau

Document Summary

Lecture 3 - being human planting seeds leads to. What is society: an abstract concept, problem of reifying society" or even government" as concrete entities. Society as social relationships: kinship, who we are related to. Shift from horticulture and agriculture: increase in population (more needs, slash and burn, use of ground stone axes to clear forest areas, then burn to release nitrogen and plant crops. Effects of agriculture: core traits associated with domestication, sedentism, storage, high population density, high resource diversity, processing and harvesting technology, good potential domesticates. Early state formation: inequality and difference starts early on in horticulture. Complexity and mesopotamia: land between the two rivers, water transport system ef cient for trade, increased diversity of labour, increase need for more raw materials. Heavy media: clay favoured temple dominance in mesopotamia, quick to dry and must write quickly, papyrus (cyperus papyrus, use red and black ink rounded and cursive script.