ANT200Y1 Lecture 8: Lecture 8 - Ch. 12 (pp. 346-359), Complex Society in South & East Asia
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Lecture 8 - complex society in south & east asia. July-sept. floods = massive silt deposits (capped sites) - floods are o devastating. Emphasis on hygiene (wells, fresh water, toilets, waster water being taken out) Public buildings, but few palaces and ostentatious tombs. We don"t see great public expense to build large ostentatious tombs like in egypt: mohenjodaro, largest (2. 5 km ); first constructed ca. 35, 000: village settlements tethered to river by ca. 3000 bc; widespread irrigation by 2500 bc: early stage (ca. 3200 - 2700 bc: walled towns (defense, flood controls?, lowland - highland (baluchistan) symbiosis (living together) Transhumance (transfer of livestock, like goats and sheep, from one grazing ground to another, as from lowlands to highlands, with the changing of seasons: rapid transition to complexity in lowlands after 2600 bc. Material culture becomes more uniform across ivc (indus valley.
