ANT200H5 Lecture Notes - Class Conflict, Dont
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20 minutes in class covers practical 1 to 5. Recap: we left off on settlement systems : the arrangements of sites on a landscape. {settlement patterns: a division of site into zones varying function or significance??? look this up. Example residential areas versus the central core. Architecture: becomes specialized in complex societies, there is an assumption that if you have variability in architecture then this reflect the economic, social and political differentiation within a community. Occupational specialization: essentially different people have different jobs, more specifically it"s a division of community into functionally interdependent entities. Example specialist potters moche portrait jar made by the moche who were expert potters. The assumption is that there is a correlation between the level of social complexity and the differential treatment of the dead. *south america did not record keep on paper. *mesopotamian tablet was another form of record keeping on clay.
