ANT201H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sedentism, Natufian Culture, Hemudu Culture
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Topic 6: early resource producers (chapter 7, 8, 9) Sedentism 15,000 bp 12,000 bp: early cultivation 12,000 8,500 bp, wheat, barley, sheep, goats, horticulture 8500 7000 bp, pottery. More intense use of plants, but no evidence for cultivation/domestication sedentism, eg; mallaha. Early neolithic 12,000 8,5000 bp: not dependent. Late neolithic 8500 7000 bp: dependent. Neolithic staples: wheat & barley, sheep & goats. Abu hureya, syria: natufian: domesticated rye 14,000 bp, early neolithic: village 11,000 9,000 bp. Ideational/symbolism increasing emphasis on human relationships: e. g. burial of dead, e. g. ancestor worship. South china 12,000 4500 bp: early cultivation 12,000 7000 bp a. rice, horticulture 7000 - 45000 bp, villages. Morphological trend analysis of rice phytolith during the early neolithic in the lower yangtze. Hemudu 7000 6500 bp more wild than domesticated equal wild & domesticated less wild than domesticated. North china 8500 5000 bp: early cultivation 8500 7000 bp, millet, pigs, horticulture 7000 5000 bp, villages: yangshao culture, banpo: village, swidden cultivation.
