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Chapter 7
Towers, Villages, and Longhouses
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History
Undergraduate 2
11/04/2007

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BROAD SPECTRUM ECONOMY
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origins in hunter-gatherer practices
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LEWIS HENRY MORGAN
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believed agriculture was change from barbarism to civilization
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V. GORDON CHILDE
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believed agriculture was due to increasing populations needing increasing food supply
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NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION
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Childe's definition of transition to agriculture
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DAVID RINDOS
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coevolution process relationship between animals and plants
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TIM INGOLD
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shift from hunting to agriculture as a shift from trust to domination
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"ORIGINAL AFFLUENT SOCIETY"
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believed hunter-gatherers had more leisure time than farmers
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MARSHALL SAHLINS
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described hunter-gatherers as original affluent society
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ESTER BOSERUP
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increased populatoin size might cause shift to agriculture
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AGRICULTURE
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domestication of plants and animals, tech. changes, and landscape shifts
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S.J. GOULD AND R. LEWONTIN
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accuse evolutionary biologists for thinking progress is not an explanation of agriculture
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PANGLOSIAN PARADIGM
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agriculture happened but not necessarily on purpose (just happened)
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FERTILE CRESCENT
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mediterranean climate good for crops in M. East
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KEBARAN
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highly mobile, no domestication, small bladelets as tools
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BLADELET
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small stone tools typical of Kebaran Period
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OHALO
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preserved underwater, oldest brush huts found
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WADI MATAHA
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burial site where legs removed and shoulder bones are overlapping
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MICROLITH
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small blade tools
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ANAEROBIC CONDITION
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underwater condition where air cannot get to sites
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NATUFIAN
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constructed agriculture, elaborate material cultre, no evidence of wide spread agriculture
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LUNATE              
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small crescent shaped bladelet
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SICKLE POLISH/SILICA GLOSS
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from harvesting grass
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MALLAHA
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remains of oval stone structure
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ABU HUREYRA
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Natufians bones of gazelles found
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YOUNGER DRYAS
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period of global climate stress had impact on society
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EARLY NEOLITHIC
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separates into pre-pottery neolithic B and pre-pottery neolithic A
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PPNA
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12-10,800ya corresponds with end of the Younger Dryas
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PPNB
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10,800-8,500ya corresponds with improved climate
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GROUNDSTONE TOOLS
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axes, adzes, and grinding stones
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JERICHO
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tower was 9m high attatched to inside of massive walls
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JERF EL AHMAR
Definition
evidence of community structure
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"BIRTH OF THE GODS"
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symbolic artifacts were found maybe religious rituals
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AIN GHAZAL
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plaster figures in pits in Jordan
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NAHAL HEMAR
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cache of ritual objects in Israel
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CAYONU
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a room of skulls
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RACHIS
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domesticated plants have tough rachis
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LATE NEOLITHIC
Definition
earliest pottry manufacture, sites less packed, sheet goat cattle and pigs are fully domesticated
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CATALHOYUK
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late Neolithic site of decorated rooms
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WAVE OF ADVANCE MODEL
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did populatons of farmers sweep across Europe bringing new crops and new life ways with them?
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LANGUAGE DISPERSAL MODEL
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views spread of agriculture as movement of ppl carrying with them an entire new way of life
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MESOLITHIC
Definition
culture of broad spectrum hunter-gatherers
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FRANCHTHI CAVE
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found remains of obsidian and tuna which showed evidence of sea travel
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LEPENSKI VIR
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complex site with burials, houses, and sculptures
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LINEARBANDKERAMIK CULTURE
Definition
earliest farming communities in Europe
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TALHEIM
Definition
site of LBK where pit of mass grave of ppl. who died violently
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