ANT 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Xia Dynasty, List Of Neolithic Cultures Of China, Prehistoric Europe
19 Feb 2018
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Zengpiyan cave: 10,300 years ago, big bones, young with smaller teeth, first evidence of artificial selection, fire pits, stone tools, polished stone/ bone artifacts (needles and hairpin, burial ground- 30 burials, few to no grave goods. Neolithic china (10,000-2,000 b. c. : begins with settled farming communities. Yu the great: flood control of the yellow river, united tribes, increased production, inaugurating dynastic rule in china by founding the xia dynasty, strong/ moral leader. Early writing: mesopotamia= economic, egypt= political, indus= economic or kinship, used to record military, political and, ritual activity. Prehistory of europe: 750,000 years ago- a. d. 43, changes in environment (glacial/ interglacial periods) affected human settlement. 1,000-100 b. c: bands of hunter-gatherers to chiefdoms. Neolithic (9,000-5,000 years ago: 1st farming communities- greece (franchti cave, spread s. e. to n. w, produced pottery, societies ranged from heavily fortified settlement to small, mobile cattle- herders, no independent domestication of animals; all animals originally domesticated in southwest.
