ANTHR219 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Kot Diji, Gregory Possehl, Harappa
30 Nov 2016
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Village farming spreads in this region after 5000 bc. Rice domestication possible in ganges plain (modern india) by 4500. Bc. (rice=east asian domesticate, so importing knowledge of cereal production from somewhere else) Areas once on the periphery become core region. (switch from one central place to another) By 4000 bc, evidence of long distance trade, regional pottery styles (everyone producing same types of things) Large settlements by 4300 bc (chalcolithic-copper stone age) and more villages. (more people, difference in size) Pottery, which may be mass produced (group of people specializing in making ceramics for everybody) Painted geometric designs on ceramics, also human and animal imagery. Large cemetery, but with fewer grave goods than earlier. (you"d think there would be proof real class distinctions with grave goods, but less evidence in this period of people buried with grave goods) Harappa= specific site; harappan= general name for indus valley civilization.
