Anthropology 101 1st Edition Lecture 8 Outline of Last Lecture I Upper Paleolithic II Homo Sapiens Sapiens III Biological vs Cultural IV Global Expansion V Sahul VI New World VII Neolithic VIII Hunting and Gathering IX Domestication Outline of Current Lecture I Emergence of cities II Settled living III Drawbacks of Urban living IV Life expectancy Current Lecture Mesopotamia 5 000 BP o Includes what is present day Iraq o The middle of the rivers o Different societies lived there Egypt 6 000 4 000 Indus Valley 6 000 4 000 These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute China 5 000 Peru 4 000 Mesoamerica 2 000 Settled Living always Increased Population always Surplus food always Occupational specialization always Technologic innovations always Stratification sometimes Central coercive authority sometimes Corvee Labor sometimes Intensive agriculture sometimes Environmental crash sometimes Drawbacks to Urban Life Environmental Degradation Inequality Poverty Famine War Stratification Some Estimates of Life Expectancy at Birth Upper Paleolithic 20 Neolithic 20 Greece Rome 28 Pre Columbian N American 25 30 Medieval Britain 20 30 Early 20th C 30 45 o In US 30 years 25 years due to advances in public health Current US 66 5 Colonial New England 40 babies die before adulthood London 1730 49 75 babies died before 5 London 1810 29 32 babies died before 5
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