ANTH 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Original Affluent Society, Tell Abu Hureyra, Kola Nut
31 Aug 2020
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Pottery; for storing, transporting, cooking, and serving and ritual/ social functions. Technological innovation; specialized tools and textiles, housing and construction. Social organization for communal projects but lack of central government/ hierarchy. The original affluent society: called hunter-gatherers because they didn"t have to work as many hours a day, had what they needed. What does this article say about hunter-gatherers and their wants and needs : they had what they needed- didn"t have to work too hard. The fertile crescent of the upper nile river in egypt to the lower tigris river in iraq. Evidence of domestic rye from 13kya along with wild plants and animals. Fully agricultural with wheat and rye to 10kya. Located in northern syria on the euphrates river. Earliest settlement was natufian culture, small village of hunting, fishing and gathering wild plants/ grains. Reoccupied by farmers who domesticated wild rye and wheat at about 11kya. Cereals: wheat, barley, rye, oats, rice (asia and africa, millet.
