ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Erlitou Culture, Dual Inheritance Theory, Written Language
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We see first civilizations at the end of the neolithic, we also see a change in tool technology. 4. social stratification differences of classes and status, these differences are the hallmark of civilization, Civilization: larger social order of states related by language, traditions, history, economics, and other shared cultural aspects. Evidence: burial customs, size of dwellings, written documents have evidence of first written documents, gives us good insights into the lives of the civilizations, like rituals, example: For test : cities: urban centers, social stratification elite ruler over these classes, states: centralized authority congregation of cities, centralized government, authority, rulers, Bones, evidence of written communication in china, also future events. 1. mesopotamia middle east, begins earliest 5, 500 ya, 13 states under a common ruler: egypt comm with mesopotamia, 4000 ya beginning of old kingdom, divided into 3 kingdom, old new middle, ruled by pharaohs- through heredity.
