ANTH 215 Lecture 8: ANTH 215 Week Eight Lecture Notes
Document Summary
The plastering of faces at jericho and burying under houses generally accepted today. Defining characteristics of neolithic: food production - agriculture, sedentary lifestyles, Jarmo, iraq. 9000-8000 years old/ 7,000-8,000 bce. a key site in fertile crescent where ceramic technology, changes in stone tool use. Around lake van and lake urmia were looked at ancient pollen and disproved oasis theory, got wet not dry. There"s lots of garbage all around the site, and burials in the houses/storage areas. Pottery is present, some of the earliest in the middle east. at the lowest levels. Ppnb esque square houses but no pottery, then neolithic houses and very crude pottery that could be made faster than stone ones but were not a nice and broke easily producing a lot of domestic garbage. Site first excavated in 1950s by james mellaart a british archaeologist. total area of site 13 hectares, around 30+ acres, very big one of the earliest and biggest known.
