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Rise and Fall of Civ. Janusek
First test
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Anthropology
Not Applicable
09/29/2004

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Term
Mesolithic
Definition
12000-10000
changing climate and local enviornments
human shift to small game
technology advances
slow transition to sedentism
wheat emmer and einkorn
sheep goats pig cattle
Term
Emmer
Definition
big happy wheat
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Einkorn
Definition
smaller early wheat species
Term
Early Neolithic
Definition
10000-8500
Levant:
natufien
Zagros:
Karim Shahir
Term
Karim Shahir culture
Definition
10,000-8500 b.c.
different food sources, better for lentils, sheep, goats... later agriculture than natufien
Zawi Chemi Shanidar (summer camp)
Karim Shahir (small settlement)
Term
Natufien
Definition
ain mallaha nahal oren
levant area early neolithic
Term
Zawi chemi shanidar
Definition
10,000-8500
early neolithic summer camp out of the caves
Term
Transitional Villages
Definition
8500-7000
fully sedentary villages, with domestication
Abu Hureya Syria
Jherico PPNA
Cayonu Tepesi
Ali kosh
Term
Abu Hureyra
Definition
8500-7000 era, on Euphrates, permanent hunter gathereres gradually turn farmers/domesticated herders.
Human skull cult like Jherico
Term
Cayonu Tepesi
Definition
Turkey anatolia region grill plan and cell plan buildings
8500-7000 transition village era
Term
Ali Kosh
Definition
outside of nuclear zone, elabarote burials emmer wheat and barley trans. vilalge 8500-7000
Term
Jericho PPNA
Definition
8400-7000, wall first built around slite w/tower agriculture lots of domestication, wall for defense or flooding unclear.
Term
Ain Mallaha
Definition
Levant, natufian culture
early neolithic village, 10000-8500,
emmer wheat manipulation, herding killing males, multiple people buriels, secondary buriels, art and expression no evidence of ranking ain ain-mallaha
Term
Nahal Oren
Definition
natufian culture, 10000-8500 early neolithic, specialized gazelle hunters, lots of gazelle, some cereal gathering, transition to sedentary life
Term
Jericho PPNB
Definition
6800-6000, re-occupied after hiatusf rom ppna. craft specialization craft workshops long distance trade increases new prestige items ritual activity cult of the skulls structure with plastared skulls...no signs of pottery despite presense of complex plaster skulls
Term
Jarmo
Definition
6500-5000. mountain village in zagros region iraq houses mud brick on stone no real planning some domestication near copper sources but no evidence for it at site half of the stone tools of obsidian from anatolia
Term
Catal Huyuk
Definition
~7200-5400
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