agriculture and the origins of civilization
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Agriculture and the Origins of Civilization. The Neolithic Age. Paleolithic Times. Precursor to Neolithic Hunting and gathering Subsistence living Later Paleolithic people included some permanent and semi-permanent communities Population estimated between 5-8 million. 28. A Mammoth. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Agriculture and the Origins of Civilization
The Neolithic Age
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Paleolithic Times
• Precursor to Neolithic
• Hunting and gathering
• Subsistence living
• Later Paleolithic people included some permanent and semi-permanent communities
• Population estimated between 5-8 million
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28. A Mammoth
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26. Skeleton of Protohippus Venticolus—Early Horse
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Auroch Skeleton
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Saber Tooth Cat (modern lion sized)
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Mammoth Bone House Bone House
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Paleolithic Art
• First time human expression appears through art
• Bone Jewelry
• Cave paintings – mostly of daily hunting and life
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Among the most recent discoveries of Palæolithic Art are these specimens found in 1920 in Spain They are probably ten or twelve thousand years old
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42. The Honey Gatherer among the Bees
He is on a rope-ladder
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37. Bone Carving of the Palæolithic Period
Mammoth tusk carved to shape of Reindeer (British Museum)
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Paleolithic Tools
• “Old Stone Age” tools were crude tools made from stone, wood or bone.
• Mostly larger tools that were chipped from a single rock
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44. Relics of the Stone Age
Chert implements from Somaliland. In general form they are similar to those found in Western and Northern Europe (British Museum)
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45. Widespread Similarity of Men of the Stone Age
On the left is a flint implement excavated in Gray’s Inn Lane. London: on the right one of similar form chipped by primitive men of Somaliland (British Museum)
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29. Flint Implements Found in Piltdown Region
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39. Bone Carving of the Palæolithic Period
Dagger Handle representing Mammoth (British Museum)
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Spear Thrower
15,000-10,000 BCEReindeer Horn, found in France
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Neolithic Age
• Between roughly 8000 and 3500 BCE
• Also called “Agricultural Revolution”
• Time of great innovation
• World Population reached 60-70 million
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Innovations included:
• Improved Tool making (still of stone):– Digging sticks– Axes– Plow
• Seed selection, fertilization and weeding techniques
• Pottery
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Innovations continued
• Irrigation methods: dam, canals, sluices, reservoirs, dikes
• Rain water storage
• Larger, more elaborate housing and community ritual centers
• Sun Dried bricks
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Stone Tools
• Smaller and more refined from chips of stone
• Farming tools such as axes and hoes
• Advance digging sticks for preparing planting areas
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46. Neolithic Flint Implements
(British Museum)
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Neolithic Axe Head
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Neolithic Scraper
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Pottery
• Original pots were made by pinching
• Advanced to coil pots
• Eventually there were very decorative and advanced pieces of pottery
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49. Specimen of Neolithic Pottery
Dug up at Mortlake from the Thames Bed
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Neolithic Two-handled Jar
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• Distinguished by its large size, incised markings, and long slender shape, this magnificent water vessel was made in northwest China by Yang-shao potters. The potters built these streamlined, painted bottom vessels by hand using a pad and anvil to thin the walls and smooth the surfaces. Although used primarily to pull and store supplies of water from river pools, such jars were sometimes in burials and sometimes were used in Neolithic funerary rituals
5000-4000 B.C.
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Early European Neolithic sites
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Results of Early Neolithic Advances
• By 7000 BCE, in middle east agriculture advances
• Trade is necessary and happens over large distances.
• Isolated civilization centers begin to form
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Çatal Höyük
• Çatalhyük is a 9000 year old town
• one of the earliest in the world
• rich art and sculpture in its houses
• 32 acres
• Up to 6000 people lived there
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Çatal Höyük
• Contained uniform mud brick housing
• Stored food made them a target for nomadic invaders and rival settlements
• Must have had ruling group, indicated by uniform building and strong fortifications
• Many religious shrines and ceremony rooms
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Catal Huyuk
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Threats
• The houses are all made of unfired mudbrick
• offer a major challenge for conservation and site presentation.
• walls are plastered and the plasters are a soft lime-rich mud (not fired or hardened)
• may be up to 450 thin layers of such fragile plasters on any wall, only some layers having been painted.
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Catal Huyuk
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Reconstruction of Dwelling
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Painting on wall of dwelling
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Temple reconstruction
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Jericho the town
• By 7000BCE, more than 10 acres occupied
• Located near Jordan River and clear oasis spring
• Town surrounded by a ditch dug into the soil and a 12 foot wall, which was later 15 feet with a tower of 25 feet
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Jericho (Housing)
• Round houses of mud and brick on stone foundations, wood doors
• Early houses had one room, but some had up to three
• Equipped with plaster hearths and stone mills for grinding grain.
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Jericho (Economy)
• Although economy based mostly on barley and wheat farming, there was also hunting and trade
• Domesticated goats gave meat and milk• Hunted for gazelles and marsh birds for flesh
hides and feathers• Close to large supplies of salt, sulfur and pitch• Traded obsidian for semiprecious stones form
Anatolia, turquoise from Sinai and cowrie shells from the Red Sea
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Jericho Society
• Seems to have had a powerful ruling class connected to the keepers of the shrines
• Art included life size human sculptures, possibly used in ancestor worship
• Seemed to have a merchant and artisan class
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The Neolithic tower from above, showing the top entrance to the staircase. To the right of the tower, and at a lower level, one can see the fortification wall.
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A rectangular, multi-roomed house of the PPNB period at Jericho.