CAS AR 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Yu The Great, Roman Glass, Game Drive System
7 Jan 2017
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Shell beads, blomboas cave, south africa, 76,000 years: earliest beads used by humans. Back side of turtle plastron, drilled and burned by shang culture: used for divination purposes, used to ask questions yes or no questions to the gods by the king. We have bones of large animals and that"s what we know about because those are the bones that are well persevered. Very easy to make with material around the world. Neg: makes us think those things were the most popular/important thinks of that culture. We"re mislead that this was their focus, but it"s all was have to see presently: tools made of organic matter like wood is not well preserved. Metals (copper, bronze, irons, gold, silver, etc. ) Origin of who knew how to make metal (smelting) is unknown. Bronze used for ritual eating artifacts: made of an alloy of tin, copper, and lead, gold only found in nature.
