ANT 2307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Feathered Serpent, Teotihuacan, Egyptian Pyramids
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Hoggarth | ant 2307 | fall 2017 | lecture 12 | page 1. States & empires: first cities in old and new worlds. = before present: prese(cid:374)t is al(cid:449)ays (cid:373)o(cid:448)i(cid:374)g though , b. p. As early cities emerged in different parts of the world, people often developed writing systems. Mesopotamia, the earliest writing system was used primarily for: ritual purposes, literary works, accounting purposes, gossip. Earliest known town dates to 11,000 before present (b. p. : first settled by natufian foragers in a well-watered oasis, occupation continued thereafter through biblical times (including joshua"s battle of. Jericho: unplanned and densely settled with a population of around 2,000 people. Lots of ladders involved: ritual spaces were decorated with wall paintings, ox heads, and bull horns. Independent family groups without control by priestly or political elite: never became a full-fledged city. Halafian pottery style (7500 - 6500 b. p. : luxury goods are associated with the social hierarchy, by 7000 b. p. chiefdoms had emerged.
