ANTH 1413 Lecture 6: ANTH_States

• School: University of Oklahoma
• Department: ANTH
• Course: ANTH 1413
• Professor: Dr.Asa Randall

Document Summary

States: states that emerged relatively and independently, secondary state, states that emerged in opposition to or out of a primary state. Some states emerged from chiefdoms: (cid:862)t(cid:449)o-tiered(cid:863) hierar(cid:272)h(cid:455, status primarily based on hereditary, full-time specialist. Generalized features of states: population, macro-regional and socially diverse, consolidation of chiefdoms, scale, expansive and territorial, access to resources, stratification, division of labor, technical, mode of exchange, taxation, tribute, redistribution, and market possible, subsistence technology: Intensive agriculture: settlement, urban-rural, resolution od dispute, cofided (law, leadership: In early states, social status often predicated on ownership of land: centralized states where government claimed ownership, feudal states, where lords claimed ownership. Archaeological signatures of stratification: distinctive housing, burial treatments, kinds, quality, and quality of food remains. Technical division of labor: persons divided by task specialization, producers (farmers, craftspeople, warriors, spiritual specialist, elite, slaves, peasants, etc, archaeological signatures include, workshops and debris, standardization, elaborate object forms, etc.