GGR101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Uruk Period, Tepe Yahya, Ethnoarchaeology

• School: UTSG
• Department: Geography and Planning
• Course: GGR101H1
• Professor: Peter Bikoulis

Document Summary

Lecture 7 outline: old world civilizations and their changing environments: From agriculture to early states: from bands to states, critical differences between different levels of social organization and complexity. Continued from agriculture to early states: from bands to states: From bands to states: few members, close contact and personal relationships. From bands to states: large number of members. Continued from agriculture to early states: from bands to states, social revolution: increasing complexity of social relations, requires a means of supporting large populations numbers - agriculture. Continued from agriculture to early states: what are states, unilineal social evolution, progression from low to high complexity in hierarchical ordering, multilinear social revolution, different degrees of complexity as adaptation. Continued from agriculture to early states: what are states, different from modern nation states, back to early social and political theorists like hobbes, machiavelli, marxist theories of early states - pre-capitalist.