ANT200H5 Lecture Notes - Tell Abu Hureyra, Natufian Culture, Fertile Crescent
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{topic 5: early resource producers // based on chapter 6: emerging cultivation, husbandry, domestication, full horticultural, agricultural subsistence (being dependent) Southwest asia: is dated from 10,000 to 5500 bc (increasing social complexity happens towards the latter date) Sedentis: the appearance of villages, setlttlemants that are living year around in a place. Dated for 12,000 to 10,000 b: early cultivation: begins at 10,000 to 8500 bc (wheeat, barley, horticulture: begins at 8500 5500 bc. Jericho important for looking at the variability of neolithic villages. Levant: mesolithic foragers, the natufian region is dated for 12,000 to 10,000 bc. Intense use of plants, but no evidence for cultivation/domestication. Natufian settlement pattern: primarily lives in villages. Natufian tools include: sickle blades and sickle handles. Neolithic (levant: dated back to 10,000 to 5500 bc, aceramic (no pottery) neolithic 10,000 to 7000 bc, this was at a period of time where they wer not dependent on produced resources.
