ANTH 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Roy Mata, Shepherd Islands, Gelonus
16 Jul 2020
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Herodotus: said the scythians were fearless, blood-thirsty warriors who roamed the landscape destroying terrifying barbarians biased agenda: instilling fear and justifying reasons for war. Kurgans : burial mounds of scythian culture preserve organic artifacts. Some artifacts found linked to some violence and others to none. What was in the burial mounds were not reflective of the society. Gelonus (bilsk), ukraine: biggest excavation of sediment scythians: peaceful farmers and herders. Roy mata burial (shepherd islands, new hebrides, 13th century ad) the context makes sense: artifacts and organization of burial. Artifacts individually: can be symbolic before functional. Scythian culture: tovsta mohyla (4th century bc) What is seen through artifacts is not the reality. Piombino, italy: burials in a christian cemetery that should not have been vampire/women w/ 17 dice both prohibited. Social complexity: study of social structure is crucial to understanding hunter/gatherer, pastoralists, and agricultural societies alike.
