ANTH 210 Lecture 12: 12ANTHANC
19 Dec 2017
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Egypt (thebes & deir el medina) part one. Hikade, thomas 2008 summary chapter, focus on section about new kingdom period. Bard, kathryn 2008 interpretive overview on nature of egyptian urbanism. Meskell, lynn 1998 most important of the three, read carefully. Mortuary practices at tiwanaku and that people are burying family members under house over generations. Children were treated in death the same way that adults were. Provocative for archaeologists thinking about place of children in early societies. Feeding the social surplus at tiwanaku difficult due to climatic conditions. When the sun goes down, the temperature plummets and the altiplano make it hard to practice sustainable agriculture. Poverty of rural bolivia today is product of 400 years of great economic inequality, first through spanish colonialism and then republican rule. Tiwanaku inhabitants developed a diversity of strategies that enabled them to flourish. This provided them with the means of creating a surplus. Maintained large herds of camelids pastoral economy.
