ARH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Epipaleolithic, Gebelein
20 Sep 2016
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Jericho(west bank)- one of earliest year-round villages ca. Neolithic period: chatal huyuk in central turkey, 6850-6300 bc. The scavenge of chatal huyuk shows the abundance of art and the massive amount of people living there. All houses are connected through the roof lines. The houses have specific places and very smooth that showed that they took care of their houses. Some houses have skulls and are larger than other houses which means that this houses were special. They had holes to decorate and bury the skulls of people. The mother goddess- the cite gives very little indication that this sculpture means is something important in politics. Only five percent of sculptures are females so there"s no power by woman. Wild animals, especially bulls, were a memory of hunting humans life style becoming more domestic. Nagada (4000-2920) was a period of southern part of egypt cover with desserts.
