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PREISTORIA E PROITOSTORIA

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LA DIVISIONE DEL

LAVORO COME PRELUDIO

DEL POTERE

La Piramide come Archetipo del Potere

Standard Complexity Growth Curve\

INNOVATION & SUBSIDY

GROWTH & EXPANSION

M. Zvelebil’s Lag-Log S-Curve

DIVISIONS OF LABOR IN PREHISTORIC SOCIETIES

GENDER and AGE

HOUSEHOLD TEAMS LONG-RANGE TEAMS

SEASONS

WINTER SUMMER

TRANSITIONS

W S S W

NOTE: Transitions indicate the periods when the group

moves between Winter and Summer quarters and

back. By camping in strategic locations many

collateral resources could be exploited during

the journey from decentralized ecological niches,

along different optional pathways. Target-oriented

survey works have made possible to detect these

smaller campsites in different parts of the world.

SMALL

HUNTING

& FISHING

COLLECTING

PLANTS

FUEL

SMALLER ANIMALS

HONEY

STOCKING

BIRDS

MOLLUSCSREPTILES

INSECTS

CRUSTACEANS

TRAPPING

KEEPING

OF ANIMALS

&CUBS

TRANSFORMATIONS

& FOOD PROCESSING

BIG

HUNTING

BIG

FISHING

COLLECTING

OF DISTANT

RESOURCES

EXCHANGE

& TRADING

PROTECTION

& SCOUTING

CAPTURE

OF ANIMALS

& CUBS

NOTE: Household Teams exploit the surroundings

of residential sites, moving in radical directions with

Daylight trips to collect a broad spectrum of resources to

meet standard food and fuel requirements. Within the site

they work continuously looking after all material needs of the

group,including the keeping of stocks and reserves.

NOTE: Long Range Teams exploit different environmental niches in

local and distant territories, including food resources from big game as

well as materials required for the making of tools, ornaments, rituals and

processing of foods (e.g. salt). Higher mobility implies their primary

involvement in scouting, exchanges and transport. Since their work is

far more discontinuous than the Household Teams, LRT have longer idle

periods in between that can be invested in political negotiations, ideological

elaborations ritual performances, and eventually new manufacturing activities.

PARTE TERZA

LO SVILUPPO SOCIOECONOMICO

SECONDO LE TIPOLOGIE

INSEDIAMENTALI IN BASE ALLE

TESTIMONIANZE ARCHEOLOGICHE

DEL MEDIO ORIENTE

MAIN

CENTRES OF

MIDDLE ASIA

IN THE

BRONZE

AGE

TEHERAN 1987

CASPIAN SEA

CENTRI DI ORIGINE DELL’AGRICOLTURA E DELL’ALLEVAMENTO

? Incertezza

sull’origine delle

specie

JARMO, Iraq

1953-58

JERICHO

7500 BC

CATAL HUYUK

6500-6000 BC

STORED DATA

Mesopotamia, Uruk tablets

mid-IV millennium BC

Egypt, Nubian pre-dinastic Signs

(early III millennium BC)

China, potmarks

(V millennium BC)

China, inscribed

tortoise shell

(late II millennium BC)

EARLIEST

NUMERICAL

TABLETS

4x10 = 40+4x1= 44

LAUREA MAGISTRALE IN ARCHEOLOGIA

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AREE DI ATTIVITA’

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CATENE OPERATIVE

MAIN

CENTRES OF

MIDDLE ASIA

IN THE

BRONZE

AGE

IL BACINO DELTIZIO

DELL’HILMAND

CARTA GEOLOGICA

IL BACINO DELTIZIO DELL’HILMAND DAL SATELLITE ERTS-1

EXPANSION & COLLAPSE OF MAIN PROTOURBAN CENTRES IN MIDDLE ASIA

(c. 3500-2000 BCE)

ROMAN-BYZANTINE EMPIRE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

AIAAINDICATORI DI ATTIVITA’

AMMINISTRATIVAA

New manufacturing sites

recently found

at Shahdad

We all know about the carved chlorite

vessels…

One of these

unnamed stones

is a peculiar gray

fossiliferous

limestone with

dense clusters of

white dot-like

inclusions, so far

not properly

identified in

geological terms