DESIGN 2750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Great Zimbabwe, Golden Ratio, Shamash
11 Feb 2018
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Epic of gilgamesh (2100 bce) talks about wall which gleams like copper at wall of uruk- The walls are important because they protect from the outside world/intruders. Most people didn"t have walls at the time. Walls were rst constructed because when people settled down, they became sitting targets (as opposed to how they ran around as hunter-gatherers). Other theory is that walls were put up to protect fertile land. Cities are de ned by the walls that surround them. We think that catal huyuk (in modern turkey) was the rst city (meaning it had walls around it). Had a lot more people than a typical hunter-gatherer group. In cities we see social strati cation and differentiation of activities. Bricks are time-consuming to make, so people were probably given this as a job while others were in food production, etc. Bricks are uniform and man-made, conform to the stupid golden ratio thing.
