ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Fictive Kinship, Some Cities, Common Cold
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Monday april 1, 2013: effects of food production - and cities. People are closer together: permanent settlements, new technologies (increasing craft specialists) We have increase density and permanent living together: new social & economic relations (status) Status was an issue (because of cities: environmental changes (including decreased species diversity) Effects of ancient egyptian mining (still measurable in lavat in jordan: diet & health (including new diseases due to pop. density) Especially lots of new diseases (diseases from animals and the common cold) Create new problems, but part of the things that cause the problems allow us to find solutions. Definition of city (p. 375: large settlement, dense population, function as center for surrounding settlements, place of social complexity (non-kin; classes, center for production, trade, religion, administration. Once we have settled populations and decreased population densities and other means for producing surplus, we see more status differences in people. 6-5,000 years ago we see the first cities.
