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kathleen kenyon

excated jericho 1950


discovered agricultural communities w/ art and pottery (neolithic)

williard libby

discovered 14 carbon dating

klaus schmidt

excavated göbekli tepe

james mellaart

discovered catal höyük

ian hodder

currently leads catal höyük excavation

andrew sherratt

idea of secondary products revolution


animals used for blodd, milk, wool

v. gordon childe

10 things it means to be civilized

charles redman

split childe's list of 10 into 2 groups of 5


secondary and primary

leonard woolleey

discovered Ur (site)


tomb of queen shob-da

jean-francois champollion

deciphered rosetta stone using pharaoh names

james e. quibell


discovered narmer's palette in temple at kieraonplis

mark lehner

giza plateau mapping project

howard carter

discovered king tuts tomb in 1922 in valley on kings

lord carnarvon

funded search for king tuts tomb

zahi hawass

studied how tut died


possibly malaria


schliemann

tried to find homeric troy


excavated troy 2


excavated hissarklik


planted priams treasure

sophia engastromenos

schliemanns wife


fled country when he "found" jewels of helen

wilhem dörpfeld

found mycenaean pottery (from bronze age) in troy 6

frank calvertt

excavating hissarklik (in troy_ w/ dorpfeld and schliemann

sir john lubbock

preserved ave bury in england


later called lord avebury

john aubrey

partial discoverer of avebury

wang yirong

discoverd anyang accidentally

rai bahadur daya ram sahni

excavated harappa under sir john marshall in 1920

sir john marshall

lead excavation of harappa

richard meadow

currently leads harappa excavation

rafique mughal

discovered 3 large urban centers in ganweirwala (not excavated)

susan and roderick mcintosh

excavated jenee-jeno


african urban centers dif from mesopotamia

jaão de barros

1552


walls made with out mortar


great zimbabwe

karl mauch

german explorer looking for remains of lost white ppl


found great zimbabwe in 1872

cecil rhodes

occupied mashonaland for gold prospecting


site became symbol for justifying colonization

theodore bent

1891 had studied phoenians but no formal traning in archaeology


concluded builders came from arabian peninsula

gertrude caton-thompson

led all woman excavating team


1st feminist arch.


trained kathleen kenyon


great zimbabwe

amal clooney

human rights lawyer for greece

queen shub-ad

Ur (2900-2379)


sir leonard woolley


human sacrifices


social hierarchy

narmer

narmers pallete discovered in hierkaonplois


united upper and lower into 1 kingdom and became king-pharoah (wears both crowns on tablet)


pharaohs = humans and gods

imohtep

scribe and architect


invented stepped pyramid (to minimize looting)


dynasty 3 egypt

djoser

(zoser)


built 1st pyramid at saqqarah (6 mastasbas - king burial chamber)


dynasty 3 egypt

khufu, khafre, menkure

built pyramids at greatest angle that can be sustained


khufu = largest


khafre = highest


menkure = smallest

tutankhamun

reined for 10 years (died at 18)


important b/c only unlooted tomb of a pharaoh


howard carter

homer

wrote illiad


epic poem of fight b/w king agamemnon and warrior achilled


alludes to mycenaean atack on troy

ludy fu hao

lady good


only unlooted tomb of anyang dynasty elite

ohallo II, sea of galilee

12-19 kya


plant remaind


broad diet


intenssive use of grasses

fertile crescent

neolithic


wheat, barley, pig, cattle, other stuff

göbekli tepe, turkey

9000 Bc neolithic


earliest religious structure?


constructed by hunter gatherers?


made using stone tools


klaud schmidt


jericho, west bank

10,500-8000 BC


no pottery (kathleen keyton)

catal hoyuk, turkey

7500-6000 BC


32 acres


10,000 ppl


mother goddess cult


james mellaart

eridu, iraq

3500 BC


1st city


temples houses chief dietys

Ur, iraq

2900-2370 BC


early dynastic period


sir leonard woolley


royal cemetery (wealth, human sacrifice, trade)

Uruk, iraq

4000-3100 BC


"organic growth" (no town planning)


city wall to keep people in and out

hierkonpolis, egypt

3100-2890 BC


james e quibell


narmers palette

giza, egypte

pyrmid building age


khufu, khafre, menkure

valley of the kings, egypte

new kingdom


many pharaoh tombs


missing tut

hissarklik/troy, turkey

3000th BC- 4th century AD]


9 levels


schliemann, dorpfeld, calvert


priams treasure

carnac, france

aligment of menhirs in 13 parrallel lines


extends 4 miles

locmariaquer, france

largest menhir


75 ft tall

avebury, england

3500 BC (earliest henge)


preserved due to sir john lubbock


large circle of sarsen stones w/ 2 smaller circles

stonehenge, england

3000-1500 BC


stone monuments form part of bigger complex (burials and ritual sites)


excavated w/ radar


construction ended in 2000 BC


astronomic observatory?


archaeoacoustics- related to sound waves?

ao, china

shang dynasty (1766-1122 BC)


early shang capital

anyang, china

shang dynasty (1300-1050)


LAST shang capital


royals buried w 3 layers (instruments, war, human sacrificies)


tomb of lady fu hao

mehrgarh, indus valley

6500-5500 BC


evidence of raising goats then cattle


agricultrual precursor for indus civilizations

harappa, indus valley

structures made w mud brick


town planning w streets


ceramics and bead making


charles masson

mohenjo-daro, indus

granary


public bath


water works


lack of monuments celebrating people (dif than mesopotamia and egypt)

ganweirwala, indus

3 main urban centers


not yet excavated (newest)

jenee-jaro

200 BC (africa)


set stage for trade in n. america


city walls


black smith


susan and roderick mcintosh


social heterarchy (power distributed horizontally, opposite of mesopotamia)

great zimbabwe

1300-1450 BC

sulawesi, indonesia

40 kya


changed view of origin of art

narmer's palette

3100-2890 hierkonpolis, egypt


james e quibell


narmers united upper and lower egypt


each side shows one side of egypt

rosetta stone

egypte


pierre-francois bouchard (discovered)


jeans francois champollion (deciphered)


tri lingual (greek, hieroglyphs, demotic egyptian)


used cartouches and pharaoh names to decipher

mother goddess figure

7500-6000 BC catal hoyuk


mellaart & hudder


no faces, hands or feet, fat


fertility goddess

warka vase

3200-3000 BC uruk


stone vessel


one of earliest works of narrative relief sculpture

catal hoyuk murals

7500-6000 BC


James mellaart


hunting scenes, mountains, geometric forms

cylinder seals

3600 BC


tokens to show wealth

priam's treasure

schliemann


"jewels of helen" fake

oracle bones

shang dynasty


lady fu hao


used to predict future


weather, military, children

where did agricultural originated

ohalla 2, sea of gulilee


fertile crescent

primary characterisitcs of civ

* Cities
* Full time labor specialization
* State organization (territorial residence)
* Class stratification w/ ruling stratum
* Concentration of surplus

secondary characteristics of civ

* Monumental public works
* Long distance trade
* Writing/record keeping
* Standardized artwork
* Science, math, astronomy

early forms of writing

cuneiform


rosetta stone


pictograms