ANTH 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Roy Mata, Newgrange, Sesklo
16 Jul 2020
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Hunting/gathering but practice agriculture and sedentary (villages) challenge model. Highly segmented society king buried in middle and surrounded by society men were drugged and women buried alive at same time. Bucheres, france (iron age 1st century bc) Professional soldiers: epaminondas: army general of thebes (greece) war w/ sparta (athens) each pair (150) of soldiers=lovers=fight to death for each other. Indus valley civilization (bronze age)- infrastructure; chiefdom living as states. Continuity of an aggressive instinct for a common ancestor. Outcome of competition between individuals for status, prestige and high rank. Conflicts and warfare driven by need for food, land, and other resources. Recognition of violence in archaeology individual skeletal evidence is ambiguous. Force beyond what is necessary to cause death. Minimal evidence before mesolithic period (period between paleo and neolithic) Oldest example of i. v. is sima de los huesos (atapuerca, spain) increasing compelling evidence during and after neolithic large regional variation cultures evolve in diff ways due to diff locations.
