ANTH 2140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Puabi, Social Inequality, Urban Revolution

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At least 8 different centres for domestication and agriculture. Emergence of social complexity and archaeological correlates of social inequality. In most cases, legitimacy is result of combination of consensus and coersion. Social complexity in canada, consensus or coersion: perhaps a little bit of both, natives confined to reserves, not everybody agrees to everything, g20 summit (dissent?) Age: the older, the more respect you have. Ability: the amount of food you provide. Everyone has equal access to the resources. Jericho site: building of monumental tower, cut rock ridge, hundreds of cell like houses, massive communities built, no social differentiation present, gender differentiation in division of labour. No single explanation or trajectory for emergence of inequality. Factors affecting: access to resources, access to information, economic competition out of region, establishment of bureaucracies, control of labour. Complex chiefdoms without food producing economy: pacific northwest, first nations of canada, rare domestication of plants and animals.

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