ANTH 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Natufian Culture, Culture Change, Sedentism
7 Oct 2016
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Three major goals in interpreting the archaeological record: reveal the form of the past, discover the function of the past, understand cultural processes. Artifacts: material items that humans have manufactured or modified. Cultural features: nonportable remnants from the past. Cultural landscapes: human made or modified environments. How and when did culture arise: first milestone, Art, earliest is 164,000 ya in africa. People expand throughout the world: reached australia. Early evidence of people: monte verde, chile, 14,000 ya. Early evidence of a culture: clovis tradition, 13 12,000 ya. Earliest adaptive strategy: 300,000-15,000 ya, hunting and gathering. Climate started to warm slowly: starting 15,000 ya, created shifts in environmental diversity. Culture change and cultural innovation: shifting adaptive strategies, people shift to. Populations and environments shift around 12,000 ya: new adaptive strategies called the neolithic shift arise. Third set of cultural milestones: sedentism. Settled lifestyle and living in permanent structures: domestication. Human interference with reproduction of another species.
