ANT201H5 Lecture 9: ANT201 - Week 9
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Topic 9: complex society in south & east asia. 2600 1900 bc: east pakistan / west india. Mortuary pracices: no ostentaious tombs, distribuion of wealth equitable? record keeping, hieroglyphic script, untranslated. 4000 2000 bc chiefdoms intensive agriculture crat specializaion. Shang civilizaion state level rigid social hierarchy setlement system: centralized territorial state setlement patern, urbanized, high populaion in china. Monumental architecture: ao (zhengzhou) 1557 bc. 10,000 workers for 18 years: pat dirt rammed earth get baskets of urth, and treat it like concrete (moulds, stamped down) Produced something like concrete with lasts forever: defensive works, public buildings, palaces, funerary monuments occupaional specializaion, intensive farming, arists & scribes, bronze metallurgy. Bronze igurines and containers chariot burial, anyang. Members of elite, nobility solid wood wheels specialty in creaing them, need to be extremely precise. Mortuary pracices: relect rigid social hierarchy, shang royal burial.
