NMC260Y1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Eating Animals, Sedentary Lifestyle, 1
5 May 2016
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Relative dating: age of object by comparing if its newer or older. Cultural dating: using existing information to determine the date of an object found. Anatolia, syria-palestine, iran, and the high civilizations of mesopotamia and egypt. Upper paleolithic / epipaleolithic period: 40 000 10 000 bc (zawi chemi shanidar) Natufian period (12 000- 9 000 bc): There is archaeological evidence of crude settlements and early signs of warfare between tribes, most likely over fertile land for crops and fields for grazing livestock. Aceramic neolithic groups were in the levant (pre-pottery neolithic a and b), zagros area (karim shahir, Levant: ppna: jericho (ain es-sultan; brick wall for defence); nahal oren; beida (jordan, ppnb: beida (jordan; corridor rooms) Lppnb: 6500-6000 bce: ain ghazel: ppnc (6000- 5500): ain ghazel, yarmoukian pottery neolithic: 5500- 5000 bce: ain ghazel. Because of change in the environmental of southern levant led to the abandonment of villages i. e. jericho and beidha.
