ANT200Y1 Lecture Notes - Ancestral Puebloans, Crop Yield, High Civilization
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October 24, 2011: research paper is due four weeks from today in lecture, next week"s tutorials are devoted to improving your research and writing. What is it that makes you allowed to say an artifact is evidence of complexity rather than something else: modeling the development of complex society. Models for talking about origin of complexity. What is complex society? tribes: typically associated with chiefdoms and states (as opposed to bands and, talk about social organization and development of society, some archaeologists array those developments on a continuum. Where have a unilinear framework with savagery barbarism civilization. Don"t subscribe to that model but still recognize a progression from simple egalitarian society through to complex societies (modern state-level society today). Obviously not the same as band-level society like hunter-gatherers. Not as complex socially, economically etc: bands and tribes least complex is socio economical contexts. Low: band may consist of 50-100 people.
