ANTH 2820 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Communalism, House Society, Epipaleolithic
28 Mar 2017
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Dead zones left them with a choice leave that place or go mobile, they went mobile: shows that it"s not a steady trajectory once you go sedentary, doesn"t mean you have to stay that way. Two kinds of burials: individuals under house floors, collective burials in pits. Dead zones left with choices: change resources, intensify your resources (domestication) Take what you have and morph it so that it works for you better. Wild wheat take more seeds, harvest it, weed around it. Domestication = changing the genetics of the crops/animals. Important changes: obviously changes in agriculture, ritualistic changes (jericho tower) Important changes: shrines with special purposes, rectangular houses, ancestor reverence (burying under floors, rituals. Jericho (8300-7300) ppna: egalitarian, small round houses, domestication. Continued to hunt gazelle, cattle, goats and pigs. Territoriality deities giving you right to land; signaling to others that this is your land: also, staying in same place, desire to be connected to your ancestors.
