ANTH 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jenny Von Westphalen, Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
16 Apr 2016
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Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns about the notes. What does marx have to do with archaeology: gordon childe"s concept of urban revolution makes a lot more sense if you know a little about marx first. Excavations began at pompeii in the late 19 th century. Ancient cities are often used as evidence for complex societies. Scarre and fagan critical use of the word civilization due to the fact that western. Europeans were placed at top, and colonial cultures were placed at bottom. The presence of cities as a key characteristic is always problematic. The states evolved or emerged independently from each other. There were many parts of the world where the social and political complexes emerged independently. It did not invent through its own complex institutions but through direct or indirect contact with pristine states. Civilizations deeply entrenched in archaeology, they include social organizations, ritual practices, etc.
