Anthropology 2229F/G Lecture Notes - Webct
18 Jul 2012
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Lecture 29 part 1 landscape level organization. Landscape level: concerned with the distribution across the landscape to find out about socio-political systems, hunter-gatherers, the distribution on the landscape is dependent on distribution of resources. Environmental variables: as societies become more complex, social factors influence distribution of sites. Social and political factors become more important, if not the most important. Arrangement of sites close together makes them easy to manage politically: e. g. Virtually all sites are known and sites are well dated. When people started living in agricultural villages, led to state-level societies. Divided into early, middle, late and terminal formative periods. Settlement types: many permanent sites, small villages, little variability in domestic sites, small farming villages, no evidence of public buildings. Status distinctions: no differences that are inherited, all houses are very similar, no special burials, etc, distinctions based on age and gender.
