ANTH 1190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Indus River, Jemdet Nasr Period, Ubaid Period
16 Feb 2016
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Elaborate burials with lots of offerings are found with children and adults; ascribed power. Monumental architecture: takes a lot of labor to construct. (t-shape temples) Uruk: the world"s first city (culture of lower states of mesopotamia=samarran culture) Complex chiefdom with impressive sites like eridu and ur. Expansion of irrigation: canals built by farmers, not state. 50 hectares or more with 5000 people or more. Ubaid period developments: 3-tiered settlement hierarchy, regional chiefly centers, sites like eridu approaching urban, probable chiefly burials. A theocracy with a pantheon of deities with temples dedicated to their worship. Priest/rulers controlled the temples which were dedicated to the gods. Ziggurat: huge step platforms that had temples on top of them. Elaborately decorated, painted murals, images of deities, store houses for goods collected as taxes, huge buildings, centerpiece of the state. Depiction of a di-utu; the king of uruk.
