ANT200H5 Lecture : ANT200 (Nov 10).docx
Document Summary
Social relations: family and household, community, society. Social stratification: division of society into groups with different status. Band: unranked, unstratified, no one is born into position of power. Mortuary archaeology (mortuary means burial with ceremony: assumption: differential mortuary practices reflect social stratification; means that some people are treated differently at death which may indicate complexity at a social scale, egalitarian burial. Within set of walls, domestic structures for everyday living and there"s two cemetery on the sideall the burials are the same, no single burial has more stuff in it, taking this as a reflection of a egalitarian village. Outside the ancient city, the pharaohs had their burial in the new kingdom. Tut"s tomb was undisturbed and we can see how the elite compared to the normal citizens of egypt. Highly stratified city, tut was born to be a king, born into royal family. Stimulated by changes in the social conditions of human life.
