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EMERGING CULTURAL PATTERNS:
100,000 BP TO THE PRESENT
Professor Roland Fletcher
Department of Archaeology
University of Sydney
Nanyang
Technological University
March 2015
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Antikythera Mechanism 3rd-2nd c. BCE
Freeth
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after Freeth and Jones
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THE BABBAGE ENGINES 19TH c.
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STAGE THEORY
PROGRESS - after SPENCER cf DARWIN
TYPE FOSSILS
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THREE PROGRESSIVE STAGES
VILLAGE/SEDENTISM – AGRICULTURE – CHIEFDOM
Type fossils eg pottery, durable houses
CITY – LITERACY – IRRIGATION – STATE
Type fossils –e g writing, large monuments
CONURBATION – MECHANISATION – NATION STATE
Type fossils eg stream trains, modular architecture
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TRANSITIONS in the GROWTH OF COMPACT
SETTLEMENTS
To settlement sizes greater than approx. 1 ha
See sedentism/ agriculture
To settlement sizes greater than approx. 100 ha
See the first cities
To settlement sizes greater than approx. 100 sq km
See the Industrial Revolution
Unlike Stage Theory an operational model indicates
the scale of even earlier and also future transitions.
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5000 sq km
per century5 sq km
per century
0.05 ha
per century
Settlement sizes
before transition
Settlement sizes
before transitionSettlement sizes
before transition
1 ha 100 ha 100 sq km
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MATERIAL PREREQUISITES and TRANSITIONS
Prerequisites manage:
SPACE
TIME
SIGHT and SOUND
An operational model of the ways in which material
prerequisites make interaction tolerable and
communication viable in larger and larger compact
settlements inhabited by more and more people
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100 ha
Settlements where
prerequisites develop
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The prerequisites occur at random eg on their
own or with other material entities, in the lower
third of the settlement size range in a region
eg in settlements less than 30 ha in extent in
China in the settlement size range prior to a
transition to settlements larger than 100 ha in
extent
sign and notation systems
multi-room, rectilinear structures
durable walling
large structures
internal segregation of settlement space
occur in any combination or in isolation.
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100 ha transition
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AnynagANYNAGaNYNAGanynagAnyang
Zhengzou
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Settlements where
prerequisites develop
100 sq km
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SALISBURY CATHEDRAL 14TH CENTURY
Salisbury Cathedral
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Geneva and Clocks
16th-17th century CE
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Smithfield market
LONDON 19TH CENTURY
Roberts
ILN 1855
Roberts
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1903 1906EALING
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THE TIME BETWEEN TRANSITIONS
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AN EARLIER TRANSITION?
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Blombos Cave, South Africa, after Henshilwood
circa 100,000 BP
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Earliest known use of ochre in the site of GnJh-03 in the
Kapthurin Formation of East Africa, and at Twin Rivers in
Zambia is nearly 300,000 years old
Maastricht-Belvédère in Europe has the use of red ochre
by at least 200–250,000 years ago
The Pinnacle Point caves in South Africa have use of
ochre extending back 164,000 years
Blombos Cave in South Africa has habitual use of red
ochre from at least 100,000 years ago
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T TIME BETWEEN TRANSITIONS
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INCREASE IN ENERGY CONSUMPTION AFTER EACH TRANSITION
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TIME BETWEEN TRANSITIONS
and
RATES OF GROWTH AFTER
TRANSITIONS
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FUTURE TRANSITIONS
THE NEXT TRANSITION ?
TO COMPACT SETTLEMENTS LARGER THAN
approx. 10,000 SQ KM with > 100 MILLION PEOPLE
RATE OF AREAL EXPANSION – 5 MILLION SQ KM
PER CENTURY ?
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AUSTRALIA circa 7.7 million sq km
About Australia
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5 million sq km of “urban”expansion in one century
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OF THE GROWTH OF THE CITY
OF LONDON: And of the
Measures, Periods, Causes, and
Consequences thereof (1682)
Now, when the people of London
shall come to be so near the
people of all England, then it
follows that the growth of London
must stop before the said year
1842, as aforesaid, and must be
at its greatest height A.D. 1800,
when it will be eight times more
than now, with above 4,000,000
for the service of the country and
ports, as aforesaid.
William Petty 1623-87
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MAGNITUDE OF PREREQUISITES for
SUCCESSIVE TRANSITIONS
Example of information management and delivery
0.001 ha transition required ochre ?
1 ha transition required art
100 ha transition required writing, quipu etc
100 sq km transition required mechanised printing
10,000 sq km transition requires digital systems
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Gutenberg and the
printing press 15th century
Mainz
Strasbourg
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GUTENBERG 1439
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VICTORIAN PRINTING PRESS 19TH c. CE
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GUTENBERG 1439 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS 2013
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7th-4th mill. BCE
3rd mill.
BCE.
Schmandt-Besserat
GIZMAG
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COMMUNICATION current digital systems relative to
future transition requirements are
equivalent to the level of the
ancestral forms of prerequisites
required for previous settlement
size transitions
“URBAN” GROWTH 5 million sq km of expansion per
century requires transformations
as great as the 18th-19th century
mechanical innovations cf
the artefacts of 17th c. Europe
SOCIAL INTERACTION will we shift to micro-second -
nanosecond punctuality??!!
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FOR A TRANSITION TO COMPACT SETTLEMENT SIZES
LARGER THAN approx. 10,0000 SQ KM
WE HAVE TO CONSIDER IT UNLIKELY THAT MECHANICAL
TECHNOLOGIES WILL BE USED BECAUSE OF THE RATES
AND MAGNITUDES INVOLVED
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IMPLICATION AND ISSUES
WE NOW KNOW ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF A FUTURE TRANSITION
BEYOND A COMPACT SETTLEMENT SIZE OF APPROX. 10,000 SQ KM
WE CAN ENVISAGE THE CLASSES OF MATERIAL PREREQUISITES THAT
WILL BE REQUIRED AND THE MAGNITUDE OF INNOVATION THAT WILL
BE INVOLVED
WE MIGHT THEREFORE BEGIN TO ENVISAGE OR IDENTIFY THE
REQUIRED INNOVATIONS
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THE NEXT TRANSITION - BEYOND CIRCA 10.000 SQ
KM FOR COMPACT SETTLEMENTS - IS THEREFORE
LIKELY TO HAPPEN RATHER SOONER THAN THE
PREVIOUS ONES
THE TRANSITION ONCE IT STARTS WILL BE
EXTREMELY RAPID
PREVIOUS TRANSITIONS HAVE CREATED VAST
QUANTITIES OF WEALTH FROM INNOVATION
and
THOSE TRANSITIONS HAVE BEEN VERY UNFAMILIAR,
UNHEALTHY, DISTURBING, VIOLENT AND CRUELLY
UNPLEASANT FOR MANY PEOPLE.
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THANKS TO
FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES,
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
for the support of the Angkor Research Facility
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL
for support of research projects
and to
Martin King, Andrew Wilson,
Rosemary Whitecross and Kirrily White
for assistance and illustrations
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Angel et al
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THREE GREAT TRANSITIONS
Punctuated equilibrium in the magnitude and rate
of growth of settlements
Increase in settlement size
Increase in rate of growth
Each transition creates an abrupt increase in the
numbers of settlements and human population
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AN EARLIER TRANSITION?