ANTH 1032 Lecture Notes - Indus River, Deccan Plateau, Fertile Crescent
11 Mar 2014
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Anth 1032 introduction to biological anthropology and archaeology. Mesopotamia: one of the earliest rises of agriculture, the whole fertile crescent was part of early establishment of agrilcultre, modern day iraq. Literally land between the rivers : tigris and euphrates rivers, now a dry, hot, inhospitable region of sand, swamp, and dry mudflats. In most parts of the world, the early rise of city-states, were not complex multi- city states but are focused on a certain city with smaller hamlets dispersed around it. Emphasized by some to be a large part of agriculture. Series of city-states each established and maintained its own colonies: competing with each other for resources from other areas. Productive in that there are natural flood plains that are natural irrigated by the natural river system. The population exceeds the natural irrigation system. Not soil that is naturally flooded on a regular basis and does not have the easily drainable characteristic.
