ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Metalworking, Clay Tablet, Elman Service
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We need to understand food production to understand themes introduced in this lecture. Talked about various social forms in the past & present (tribes, bands, states, chiefdoms, ). Chiefdoms: larger than tribes(5,000 20, 000 or more people). We also see kin-based ranking under hereditary leader . We start to see people who do not directly participate in the collection and harvest of foods(such as chiefs, who rely on tribute food coming in the effort of others. Chiefs offer leadership in exchange for this tribute). We see domestic/non-domestic sites i. e. settlements, residential compounds. Archaeological example: catalhoyuk is an chiefdom that existed in. States(pre-industrial): larger than chiefdoms (generally 20, 000 plus people). Class based hierarchy under a ruler such as a king/emperor laws, bureaucracy(taxation), standing armies, commoners versus elites cities -arc example: all ancient civilizations such as. Bc(border of india & pakistan), north china ca. Arc indicators used to detect complex forms in the past (i. e. what"s evidence for chiefdoms?)
