GGR101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cishan Culture, Aurochs, Qasr Ibrim
24 Apr 2016
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Thomas hobbes (1588-1678: the original affluent society . Written about by marshall sahlins based on field work among the !king by richard b. lee argued that hunter gatherers were not primitive . Work 3-5 hrs/day to meet basic needs lots of time to socialize: features of the hunter gatherer lifestyle. Egalitarian : hunter-gatherer mobility following the ethnoarchaeology work of lewis binford seasonal round task oriented, the seasonal round extensive knowledge of environment resource scheduling: Culture wasn"t ready : culture the prime mover (idealist) Late pleistocene climate: alternating stadial + interstadial phases stadial: oldest, older, and younger dryas interstadial: bolling and allerod. Holocene is an interstadial: late pleistocene/early holocene human cultures the natufian in the near east pre-agricultural, foraging groups. Microlithic tools semi-subteranean houses occupied year round sites located in the southern levant. Pleistocene climatic variability didn"t allow for people to experiment long enough stable period of high co2 levels, warm, wet conditions with the.
