AR102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Quaternary Glaciation, Glossary Of Archaeology, Ecotone
3 Aug 2015
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Lecture #9 interpreting the past environment and adaptation. 6000+ years old in a sedimentary community, relying on domesticated plants and animals as opposed to hunter-gathering: evidence of religious organization, complex social organization, economy based on plants and animals. Interesting burials where a head is knocked off a figurine and the head is found under a floor: murals, figurines of fertility, plastered skulls. Julian steward father of cultural ecology: stated: 1. Humans in similar environments adapt in similar ways: 2. All adaptations ae short-lived and change with the environment. Environment changes regularly due to natural and human agency. Why we can dig a site and find stuff from many different cultures. Changes in culture can result in new cultures through cultural evolution. One site with different deposits show different cultures in environment. If don"t have water they irrigate and terracing and where they burn the land: natural and cultural agencies change the environment.
