ANTH 2050 : Test 3 Notes
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Initially organized as a single room: occupied from about 4,500-2,000 years, uruk period (4,000-3,000 bc, site of uruk, iraq, huge urban centers: city-states, settlement hierarchy, cities, towns, villages, hamlets. Innovations: plow, wheeled cart, potter"s wheel (mass production of ceramics, early writing (3,400 bc, city states, uruk expansion in middle uruk (3,600-3,400 bc, city of uruk (ca. 4,000 bc: largest city in mesopotamia between 3,200-2,800 bc, several temples, ziggurats, monumental buildings. Legitimation of ruler ship: accounting and writing, denise schmandt-besserat"s token model. Impressions on clay replaced tokens: record keeping, storage, transportation, exchange. 4/13/11: the pyramids of king sneferu, the meidum pyramid, the bent pyramid, the red pyramid, pyramids of giza, old kingdom: 4th dynasty. Integrate laborers into state (mendelssohn"s model: tomb, causeway, and mortuary temple, 2500-4000 people at giza workhouses, the great sphinx, features of the pharaoh khafre (cepheren, mummification, after 3100 bc, embalming ensured immortality, harappa and the indus river valley. Early harappa and the foundations of indus valley civilization.
