HIST 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nippur, Eridu, Hunter-Gatherer
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Earliest human societies- traces of temporary shelters. Not a lot of stuff, move around a lot. 12,000 yrs (about) people started to change. Domesticate- domesticate animals (wolves, sheep, cattle, etc. ) Growing plants (gather seeds to plant and harvest) the animals and plants need humans to survive. You can feed more people with reliable food source. Women= more about the family and domestic life. Men= hunters and taking care of the villages. Catal hukuk (7400-6000 bce) modern turkey- about 6,000 people lived there, very large community. Evidence of individual homes- each family had a home. Remains of humans under the floor in the homes (possible rituals to bury dead family members under the home) they believe that there were walls around the whole community. Civilization requirements: agriculture, specialization of labor- crafts, farmers, gov, religion, stratification- different levels of society, power, wealth, influence, complex gov, cities- really big groups of people, writing ( we take it for granted)
