CAS AR 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Lewis Binford, Great Zimbabwe, Processual Archaeology
19 May 2016
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Diffusion changes in one group must have been caused either by the influence or influx of a neighboring and superior group. Migration the movement from one region to another. Isolate and study different processes at work within a society, between societies, and social relations. Lewis binford made a very general explanation about the origins of farming worldwide. Drew attention to the global events at the end of the last ice age. He said that once a community became sedentary, its population size increases and the need to use local plant foods increased which led to farming. He said that the rising sea levels at the end of the pleistocene reduced coastal plains available to hunters and new habitats were created that offered fish as a permanent source of food so the became sedentary. Avoided migration and diffusion and explained in processual terms.
