Classical Studies 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Neolithic, Fertile Crescent, Southern Levant

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2500A/B
• Professor: Beth Greene

Document Summary

Early villages and the archaeological record: pre-pottery neolithic = ppn, pottery neolithic = pn. 8500-6000 bc (earliest city in the world: please read about other settlements in textbook, chapter 1: ay n , g bekli tepe, What is an ancient city? (cid:894)a(cid:272)(cid:272)ordi(cid:374)g to v. gordo(cid:374) childe (cid:1005)95(cid:1004) (cid:862)the ur(cid:271)a(cid:374) re(cid:448)olutio(cid:374)(cid:863)(cid:895) large size and nucleated population social stratification. Central authority controlling surplus (king, deity, etc. ) Collective identity and group membership within the community. Sciences (exact and predictive) (cid:862)cities are rich, full, many-faceted; reducing the city to a single, all-purpose definition see(cid:373)s (cid:374)either possi(cid:271)le (cid:374)or e(cid:448)e(cid:374) desira(cid:271)le. (cid:863) (cid:894)gates (cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)(cid:1007), page (cid:1007)(cid:895) Questions to consider about the first settlements and the agricultural revolution. 12,500 10,000 bc: (cid:373)all per(cid:373)a(cid:374)e(cid:374)t settle(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts i(cid:374) outher(cid:374) le(cid:448)a(cid:374)t a(cid:374)d north(cid:449)est yria (cid:894)(cid:449)e (cid:449)o(cid:374)"t look at these) Increase in settlements: domestication of plants (late 9th-8th millennium, domestication of animals (8th millennium, pottery production begins ca. Allowed humans to cultivate and control plants.