ANT101H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sahelanthropus, Dentition, Foramen Magnum
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Age of prosimians (lemurs, lorises, adipidae, tarsiers) primate characterisics: Unique features not seen on miocene apes. Theories of emergence civilizaion - what started beginnings of civilizaion: environmental. Balance of energy"s ideas of symmetry and having everything in accordance with direcion of compass: means of producion or communicaion, hydraulic theory. Producing a lot of food in small villages for large populaions: trade networks, mayan (mesoamerica, agricultural cycles, codiied everything on stele, stone posts, large scale agriculture. Idea that whoever controlled the avenues of trades between: olmec (mesoamerica) Trade occurs near river systems: environmental and social circumscripion. Neolithic villagers migrated toward urban centers where food producion was larger: cultural, sociological means, idea of advancement communicaion or means of producion, informaion theory. Certain individuals made decisions of all producion leading to social straiicaion: control of communicaion. Answer: in the middle east about 80,000 years ago: indus valley (harappan)
