Classical Studies 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Neolithic, Southern Levant, Fertile Crescent

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2500A/B
• Professor: Beth Greene

Document Summary

Unit 1. 2: neolithic and early urban characteristics, 10,000-5000 bc. Pottery neolithic = pn starts in 6800/7000 bc: domestication of plants: the fertile crescent: where people figured out how to grow things- most important invention. Landscape of the near east and anatolia: neolithic settlements: 10,000-5,000 bc. *please read about other settlements in textbook, chapter 1: ay n , g bekli tepe, atalh y k. Identifying as canadians when travelling outside of the country. To not get associated with americans: associate ourselves with our cities through sports. In early urbanization: shift from aligning yourself with family unit (smaller) to the city. Cities are rich, full, many-faceted; reducing the city to a single, all-purpose definition seems neither possible nor even desirable. Let us use the considerations presented above as a point of departure. (gates. Increase in settlements: domestication of plants (late 9th-8th millennium, domestication of animals (8th millennium) Dark red area on map: as time goes on, area expands.