ANTH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Minoan Civilization, Pseudoarchaeology, Subsidence
12 Oct 2016
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Chapter 7: archaeology of the last 5000 years (mg) Civilization: archeologists would accept that a society characterized as one must have one or all of the following: one city. In archaeology, city is usually defined as a settlement having at least 5000 residents: monumental architecture. Includes buildings, but it also often features other large structures like pyramids: subsistence based on agriculture, state level of political organization, system of writing. Leads to describing a society as a civilization. Other characteristics are generally already in place and have been for a thousand years or more. Civilization = sometimes, but not always, equated with a state level of political organization. Used to describe several distinct states in a region, with each meeting the criteria of civilization. Empire: when one state dominates or exercises control over others. Often identified in the archaeological record by comingling of cultural traditions and connecting road systems. De(cid:448)eloped (cid:449)orld"s earliest syste(cid:373) of writing, known as cuneiform.
