ANT201H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sub-Saharan Africa, Fertile Crescent, Banpo
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Your born into a ranked or class based system i. e. the society we live today but institutionalized inequalities. Tribes trace lineage and family lines back into time, unlike bands. Group think- i. e. anyone from that group can get killed for retribution for a murder. Elites are closer to gods towns and monuments. Bureaucracy set of a more hierarchal chiefdom. Wild seeds that become important in food production process. Wheat n barley sheep, goats and cattle horticulture 8500-7000 bp late neolithic. Millet (african rice), rice, yams, coffee, and cattle from near east. Cattle cattle are from south west asia, the fertile crescent area. Brown areas in the ppt slide of south china- area with evidence for cultivators* Wild rice itself was domesticated in the middle valley of pengtoushan 9000 bp. Evidence they were artificially changing landscape to accommodate rice planting. From water buffalo or deer bones tools were made and used as a hoe for rice planting.
