Classical Studies 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Stratification, Asphalt, Food Processing

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

Document Summary

12,500 10,000 bc: small permanent settlements in southern levant and northwest syria (we (cid:449)o(cid:374)(cid:859)t look at these) 10,000 5000 bc: increase in settlements, domestication of plants (late 9th-8th millennium, domestication of animals (8th millennium, pottery production begins ca. How do we know: sedentary groups utilize agriculture, agriculturally productive (arable) lands and settlement leave behind: Why in the near east and anatolia: need rivers (transport, water source, modes of communication) There is a regional variation of landscape: deserts, mountains (taurus, zagros, great plateaus (iranian, anatolian) Require regional variation in the landscape need to have unique goods to trade with other settlements. Near east very different kinds of landscapes in fairly close proximity mountains, plateau, desert, rivers, sea: all of these areas are going to produce something different. Between the rivers allowed for communication, arable lands. Coastal regions good for salt, fishing. Why do various environmental conditions make a difference: going to drive trade, movement of people and goods, ideas, technology.