ANTH 2140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Plat, Hemudu Culture, Grave Goods
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Cumulative exam, focus on past the mid term. At least 8 independent centres for domestication of plants and herd animals over the past 12,000 years. Early fishing and farming villages, of east asia, central, north and south america. What shift in resource procurement pattern occurred in many places in the world at the end of the pleistocene: from a circulating to a radiating resource procurement. Emerging 14c technology for early pottery use, before agriculture, hunter/gatherer. Dispersal starting in the far east of pottery, china, russia and japan: non-agricultural peoples. Many early settlements in the east, pleistocene and holocene in the major river valleies, (yellow and yangtze river: rice from the yangtze river basin, millet in the yellow river basin, domesticated serparately. Earliest pottery use about 20k years ago in china. Thousands of years of occupation in these spaces. Beakers have thought to have been used for cooking.