ANT 304 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Ethnoarchaeology, Social Inequality
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Establishing the nature and scale of the society. Move seasonally - camps, and smaller sites. Generally kinsfolk and don"t have formal leaders. Referred to as tribes - settled farmers but live nomadic pastoral life - many communities into a larger society. Specialized craft production, and surpluses of foodstuffs. Ruler has explicit authority to establish laws and also enforce them by the use of of a standing army. Stratification of classes - farmers, craftsmen and then rulers and priests. Organization is at local level - concentrate on sites. Cave - occupied for long time and lots of activity. Open - shorter periods of time and deposits may have suffered greater erosion. Careful excavation is needed to study the sites. Identify centers of the site - by size or location. Also look at artifacts they were buried with. Using present societies and looking at the past and making comparisons and conclusions. Archaeology of the individual and of identity.
