ANT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sedentism, Mesoamerica, Teotihuacan
Document Summary
Mestolithic stone making; microliths with broad spectrum economies origin of state(sumer) Braid wood thought that food production began in fruitful land. Bindford so many resources that people could lead sedentary lives beginning of early cultivation started as a way to copy richer environments in scarce places. 4 middle eastern zones tied together by trade mesoamerica middle america, mexico, guatemala, and belize state a social and political unit featuring a central government and social classes polity political entity such as a chiefdom or state. Chiefdom society with permanent political structure, heriditary leaders, and social rankings, no class divisions state central gov"t, administrative specialization, and social classes primary states states that arised through competition among chiefdoms. 3 factors to creating a state : environmental circumscription, increasing population, and warfare physical vs social circumscription islands vs. countries bullying each other empire mature sate that"s large, multiethinic, militaristic and expansive.
