HIST 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Processual Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, Intensive Farming
24 Nov 2017
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Land ownership determined one"s social and political role. Ideal was to have land based on wealth, gaining it from agricultural surplus. Hinterland played an important role in the sacred landscape . A lot of smaller cult sites, rural sanctuaries, cemetaries, tomb cult, ancestor worship - a lot went on in the religious world. Ancient literary souces art mostly tell us little about the agrarian life. Field surveys ancient cultures related to the wider society and how this worked, looked at city states & the wider system of how a town and country were related 2 each other and their economic relationship. Field survey: walking and looking at the ground because of surface finds (potentially cultural remains), looks at density. Developed by archaeologists in near east and american southwest starting in the mid 20th century onwards. Helped by the research agendas of processual archaeology.
