CMPT 106 Lecture Notes - Bent Pyramid, Lewis Mumford, Singer Building
11 Sep 2013
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Used stone tools almost a million years ago. Technology progressed very slowly: lewis mumford suggested that humanity was not idle during this interval. Ii. patterns of culture language: communities tend to be traditional. Only a few people, so only a few ideas. Communication between groups is poor, so no cross-fertilization of ideas. Groups must have free time to do the experiment, and must find the materials to be used. Conservatism is safe if the group has survived thus far, it must be doing things right. Group are force to innovate because those that does not will be at the mercy of the group that does. What changed: the invention of agriculture, about 10,000 years ago. One of the first pyramid, the step pyramid of zoser at saqqara, built in 2650 bc, by imhotep. Bent pyramid at dahshur started off at too ambitious an angle, and had to be modified.
