Classical Studies 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fertile Crescent
13 Sep 2016
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Between 12500 and 10 000 bc there were small permanent settlements; important to note that there were semi-permanent/permanent settlements before the agricultural revolution. Between 10 000 and 5000 bc we see the urban revolution: incr in settlements, domestication of plants (agricultural techniques) and animals, pottery production (6800 bc) Happened around the fertile crescent, the dark red area on the map: where agriculture starts in the world. Starts in that red area and then spreads out further. People start sharing these ideas through trade, family connections. You do need to be sedentary to utilize agriculture unless you are doing seasonal movement. Arable lands leave behind archaeological things such as plant remains, animal bones, storage pits, tools (needed for agriculture, like stone tools and rarely wood) We would find a # of these things left behind. When domestication of plants expands, city"s urban or protourban environment has a relationship with the countryside.
