NMC102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Tell Abu Hureyra, Emmer, Shanidar Cave
22 Feb 2018
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Rise of the first cities: prehistory and the neolithic period. Relative vs. absolute dating: stratigraphy lowest layers are earlier in time, things found in surface layers are the youngest and the deeper you excavate, the older the findings. Relative dating: based on changing pottery styles, enables ordering of layers relative to one another. Absolute dating: fixes a level in time, scientific techniques, dated inscriptions. Human evolution: finding neanderthal skeletons in shanidar cave (germany), 10 skeletons found, middle/upper palaeolithic, in one of the graves they found pollen. Late epipalaeolithic: 13,000-10,200 bc, natufian (levant, first known permanent dwellings, collected barley. Pillars with animal motifs: animals: gazelle, sheep, bores. Introduction of crops from elsewhere: decline in gathering vs. increase in barley, emmer wheat, lentils, peas, and einkorn, weeds of cultivation. Ppnb: change in architecture from round to rectangular structures, domesticated barley and wheat, mega-sites: halula and abu hureyra on the euphrates, aswad and ain ghazal in the.
