ARKY 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Kot Diji, Lapis Lazuli, Kalibangan
20 Mar 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Chapter 11 an explosion of complexity: the indus valley and china. Moving the midterm from the 23rd to the 30th. Crat specializaion: people who go from producing something part ime to producing it full ime. Conglomeraion of people into dense urban seings (ciies: we see monumental works in and around the ciies, large public projects (water canals) Hydraulic hypothesis: people moving into this area need to know how to control the river (how to get the water to leave when it loods and how to keep the water for the dry seasons. Those who could control the water would gain authority. Site: mehrgarh: located in pakistan at the foothills of the mounians. Evidence of goat, barley and wheat that are not naive to that area so they would have been acquired through trade. Communal rain storage features society is extending to a community view, not just familial.
