CLAR 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Aegean Civilizations, Neolithic Revolution, Paleolithic
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Seriation: the arranging of items in an order, or series. In archaeology, seriation indicates the ordering of human-made artifacts in a sequence of assumed date of manufacture from the earliest to the latest. The time when men and women first organized themselves in fixed settlements and brought the reproduction and exploitation of plants and animals under their control. Jericho: jordan river valley in palestine (pre-pottery neolithic) Cayonu: located in southeastern turkey (pottery neolithic characterized by the sudden appearance of pottery) There is flexibility in what is a town or a city (towns are very similar to cities) Towns have local government and services they have ancient correlates we will talk about. From urbs = city, urbanus = related to/from the city. Anthropological categories of political organization: bands, tribes, chiefdoms (centers of culture but not necessarily a city, states (bureaucratic institutions) Combination of city and its hinterland (rural area economically tied to urban areas)
