ANT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Radiocarbon Dating, Tape Measure, Relative Dating
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2 mill years as hunter-gathers, 5 thousand yrs as civilized. Civilization: aka complex society , complexity = diversity (large # of diff parts) and integration (incorporated into a whole that depend on one another) Primary states of civilizations : mesopotamia: earliest, mesoamerican and andean: latest. Mesoamerica: part of central america: southeast mexico, guatemala, belize, honduras, el. Salvador: mexico city: aztecs, empire, mayan: city states. Due to location, it was in charge of trade: palace in middle with smaller residences around it. Methods: survey: walk the landscape for artifacts, leads to mapping, mapping: used to be done with tape measure and compass; now is done by. Ex: jade face with small holes in it. Spatial context: this jade thing was found in a headband on another royal woman in other site; represents maze god and the god of kings; based on bowls that also got poked to take out the spirit.
