ANT313H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Yamanashi Prefecture, Niuheliang, Jiahu
Document Summary
Things with more parts and more connections between parts (price 1995: 140) Social complexity: vertical vs. horizontal social differentiation (hierarchical vs. heterarchical complexity, economic vs. sociopolitical complexity the presence of one form (e. g. , economic inequality) needs not necessarily imply the presence of another (e. g. , political inequality) Egalitarian: means equal opportunities, but not necessarily equal results. It allows uneven accumulation of personal property and status, but not inherited wealth or any sort of hereditary inequality . Stratification: the division of society into ranked, institutionalized categories of people such as classes. Mortuary pattern settlement pattern: size (linked to population size, location, function. Climate optimum (9800-4500 bp) establishment of the jomon cultural tradition large communal structure along with smaller dwellings in n. honshu pottery with broad open mouths, fiber-tempered, cord marking canoes and paddles lacquer products. E. g. , torihama shell mound, sw honshu, excellent preservation of organic materials. Regional traditions (pottery and subsistence), and inter-regional exchanges in central honshu.
