ARCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Lime Plaster, Pre-Pottery Neolithic A, Fot

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Archaeology
• Course: ARCH 100
• Professor: Francesco Berna

Document Summary

Pre-pottery neolithic a (ppna)-> shows humans were performing tasks/working/living together o o. Lime plaster (burn limestone rlly hot [kilns] o. Pre-pottery neolithic b (ppnb)--> type of arrowheads and types of settlemetns are what differential a and b o. Rectangular stone walls (2-3 stories high) ---early cities--: hidden rituals. )/ took skulls f/ real people and plastered, added embelishments in order t worship ancestors. Polished axes in walls (magical function??: display rituals. Late neolithic (8,500-7,000 years ago: tech: Variation acorss time/space form (burnished and red painting) Ecological stress caused by humans (grazing herds/wood for plaster manufacture) Shift to domestication (grazing herds required widely scattered villages o. Rooms w. frescoes (animals, goddesses, geometrics, vultures) o. Evidence of animal domestication like change of shape in goat horns. Pottery is not linked to evidence fot the use of cattle for their milk. Ppl relied on full range of plants domesticate in early neolithic o. Pottery vessels were introduced late in the process.