ANTH 1190 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Karl August Wittfogel, Eridu, Warka Vase
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Stones: alabaster onyx, carnelian, lapis lazuli, malachite, ochre, sulpher. Went from round houses (easy to build) to square/more complex housing cities. Minerals being processed vessels are created: beer mug, other specific pottery. Foudation nail made of copper used to mark where a building will be built. Sumerians (speak sumerian used for about 2000 years, then disappears and is replaces by a new language called akkadian ) moved into an area where other people were already settled. They speak a different language begin to borrow words. Thiessesn polygons be able to map out relationships between different sites they have different sides that relate. Natural recources: rain, date palm trees used wood to build (still do today), and domesticated the dates, seasonal flooding was feared, but occurred, ag. Today is still limited to near tigris and euphrates. Flax blossoms for one day in the spring. Flax seeds, flax oil, stocks of flax are used for the making of linen.
