Anthropology 2229F/G Lecture Notes - Chiefdom, Central Place Theory, Walter Christaller
18 Jul 2012
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Lecture 29 part 2 landscape level organization: valley of mexico cont. Settlement types: small villages, larger villages, and towns (2000+ people, more public buildings, more administrative and religious buildings. Status distinctions: evidence of status distinctions appear, burials: some have more goods than others, differences in housing: larger houses for the more powerful people, found in the towns. Settlement patterning: aggregations of sites, about 8-10 sites. Large town or village centrally located and acts as the administrative centre: not everywhere as they were before, town as an administrative center of surrounding villages. Clusters are clearly related, but don"t overlap, eliminates competition between groups: spacing becomes quite regular between the larger towns, suggests they are administrative centers. Classified as simple to complex chiefdoms chiefdoms. Settlement types: appearance of a fourth level of settlement, the urban centre (20,000+ people) Small villages, large villages and towns still exist. 2 urban centers in the valley, causes the smaller clusters to disappear.
