ARCH 100 Lecture Notes - Mesolithic, Neolithic, Grave Goods
12 Sep 2012
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Worldwied changes after 10,000 bp: climate, complex hunter-gatherers and foragers, sea levels rose 130-150 metres, flooding cut off americas, britain, australia, etc, drowned coastlines, magdalenian europe. Kin, lineage, clain, higher social ranks & privileges, individual or kin group specialized craft production, controlled by elite. End of age ice to introduction to farming. Decisuous (oak, hazel, elm) forests to replace tundra. Reindeer, hourse replaced by red deer, roe deer, elk. Gender and age differences in grave goods. Human induced morphological change in plants and animals that renders the species dependent on humans for reproduction and survival . About 15 major domesticated plants in the world, even less diversity of domestic animals. No new economically significant domesticates since neolithic. Narrowed resource diversity causes erosion of genetic resources, disease susceptibility. Harvesting, selection pressure toward fewer and larger seedheads. These are biological features archaeologists can look for. Result in morphological chances that we can identify archaeologically.
