ANT200Y1 Lecture Notes - Netiv Hagdud, Site Planning, Ghazal
Document Summary
Different ways that agriculture developed different areas developed independently. The spread of agriculture is not simple, is dynamic, involves relationships farmers, hunter-gatherers etc. Middle east most developed archaeological record lets us look at the history and development of agriculture. Middle east wheat, goat, pig, cow, barley, lentil. Fertile crescent - relatively small area of the world but large enough that we cannot assume that the same things were going on at one point as in another politics plays role. Politics stops cross-over of research (and digs) between certain regions. Find the table showing the stages (around page 198) Kharaneh jordan: huts bigger structures, larger congregations of people, bones under floor of house other bones near/ in ground - fox etc. Wadi mataha: no structures, hunter-gatherer, rock shelter (sorta) people come and go, stone bowl with hole. Important or was a bad person manipulation of bodies (human and animal) Chipped stone: lunates crescent shaped microliths some with sickle polish.
