ANTH 1190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fertile Crescent, Neolithic, Sedentism
Document Summary
Neolithic life: domestication, sedentism, social inequality, ground stone tools, pottery. Identi ed seeds can indicate whether a group of people relied on wild oral resources, domesticated plants, or a mix of both. In this way, macro botanical analysis of charred seeds can tell us about the behaviors of ancient people. Major periods leading to the development of sedentary agricultural. Early neolithic period (10,000 - 8000 bc) Transitional village period (8500 - 7000 bc) Fully neolithic villages (by 7000 - 6000 bc) Transition form the mesolithic period to the early neolithic period in. Increasing focus on wild what, barley, cheep and goats. Development of grain harvesting and processing technologies. Transitional village period developments (8500 - 7000 bc) Rst physical evidence of domestication (wheat, sheep, goats) Fully neolithic village period developments (7000 - 6000 bc) Pottery is important at nearly all sites.
