ANTH 1010H Lecture Notes - Wield, Religious Organization, Ethnoarchaeology
3 Sep 2013
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The answers to these questions are not directly visible in the archaeological record. We have to tease out the answers from archaeological data: we have to ask the right questions of our data. Different societies provide different kinds of data. Classification of society: mobile hunter gatherer, segmentary society, chiefdom, state, based on differences in: Architecture: course measure, obviously not all societies will fit these classifications, these classifications allow us to organize our thoughts. We are really looking at changes over time: not progressive, one is not better than another or more advanced than another. Show increased specialization: people no longer combine multiple aspects of their culture. With intensification and specialization some people: become wealthier, wield more authority. Wealth and authority as basis for social status and ranking. Settlement analysis: what is the scale of the society. Distribution across landscape and relative to each other: goals of settlement archaeology. Regional center, local centre, village, hamlet, etc.
