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LA DIVISIONE DEL LAVORO COME PRELUDIO DEL POTERE

La Piramide come Archetipo del Potere

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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 SMALL HUNTING & FISHING

TRAPPING

COLLECTING PLANTS FUEL

LONG-RANGE TEAMS BIG HUNTING

SMALLER ANIMALS BIRDS INSECTS

KEEPING OF ANIMALS &CUBS

CAPTURE OF ANIMALS & CUBS

TRANSFORMATIONS & FOOD PROCESSING

REPTILES CRUSTACEANS 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.

WINTER

PROTECTION & SCOUTING

BIG FISHING

STOCKING

HONEY

MOLLUSCS

SEASONS

EXCHANGE & TRADING COLLECTING OF DISTANT RESOURCES

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.

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

CASPIAN SEA

TEHERAN 1987

? Incertezza sull’origine delle specie CENTRI DI ORIGINE DELL’AGRICOLTURA E DELL’ALLEVAMENTO

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)

4x10 = 40+4x1= 44

EARLIEST NUMERICAL TABLETS

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AREE DI ATTIVITA’ E 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

ROMAN-BYZANTINE EMPIRE

OTTOMAN EMPIRE

EXPANSION & COLLAPSE OF MAIN PROTOURBAN CENTRES IN MIDDLE ASIA (c. 3500-2000 BCE)

AIAA INDICATORI 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