ANT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Clovis Point, Karl August Wittfogel, William Rathje
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Brian hayden believes that increasing social competition between more densely populated hunter groups created a larger heirarkisk stratification and increased focus on exhibit power and resources. Consequences of agriculture (settlement, complexity, material culture, warfare, intensification) caused the settlement of groups of people, gender bias, fights over land and a focus on material goods. Agriculture as mistake less variety in diet, disease, overwork, famine, wealth diff. , sexism) Correlates of civilization cities, inequality, craft specialization, politics, agricultural intensification, surplus, instability. Unilineal evolution that civilizations all develop from one stage to the next with no major deviation. Rise of civilization theories and people associated with them (craft production, trade, hydraulic, warfare, ideology) Evidence for migration from asia ecent finding of australoid genetic markers in amazonia supports the coastal route hypothesis. Clovis points characteristically-fluted projectile points associated with the north american clovis culture. Mesoamerica (geographic area, culture area, modern states) outh-central mexico southeastward to include the isthmus of tehuantepec, the yucat n peninsula,
