ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Narmer Palette, Shadoof, Social Stratification
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Civilization is a concept that is usually not well understood. Use in bad when applied to a normal social concept. Tour of major archaeological sites associated with civilizations (or near civilizations) Many of them would overlap with places we have found agriculture appearing for the first time or some of the first areas of the world that developed agriculture. Defining characteristics of civilization: de(cid:374)sel(cid:455) populated settle(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts, food su(cid:396)plus (cid:272)o(cid:374)t(cid:396)olled (cid:271)(cid:455) a(cid:374) elite, o(cid:272)ial st(cid:396)atifi(cid:272)atio(cid:374) Probably nothing good about this: a fo(cid:396)(cid:373)al go(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, a s(cid:455)ste(cid:373) of (cid:396)e(cid:272)o(cid:396)d keepi(cid:374)g, pe(cid:272)ializatio(cid:374) of la(cid:271)o(cid:396, mo(cid:374)u(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) (cid:449)o(cid:396)ks. Greece humans became more sedentary with more population density. Graph shows dwellings around avenue of the dead. Allows settlements to be so crowded and densely populated. Process of optimizing how to get water from one place to another. First type of methodology of irrigation called the shaduf. Lever that transports water from one place to another.
