CLST 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Quern-Stone, Shadoof, Square Rig
23 May 2015
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A quick and nasty guide to old-world technology before the classical period: don"t think of technology back then as being as progressive as it is today. But still it moves more quickly than we might have expected: before c. 8000 bce: paleolithic (old stone) age. All these are happening more that we haven"t mentioned. Agriculture not widespread but people are living on the lands growing plants: some argue it was to make beer (seriously) Useful for hunting and defense: 8000 3500 bce: neolithic (new stone) age. The wheel shows up in mesopotamia in the fourth millennium. Fabrics: leather working, felting, spinning, weaving, dyeing. Using a much larger variety of fabric: before would use pelts pelting a process of treating wolves so you get their matter hair. Spinning is very labour intensive done primarily by women: very difficult to make a single thread done by spinning the fiber into the thread very slowly.
