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Essay Questions
Chapter 12: The Rise of Cities and Civilization
- Why is the site of Lamanai so important from an archaeological perspective?
How have the studies performed by Christine White, David Pendergast,
Elizabeth Graham and others changed our views on the Maya collapse?
- Why is trade so important to civilizations? Compare Michael Spence’s
research on the obsidian industry in Teotihuacan to modern day movement
of goods and services. What similarities and differences can you see?
- How do anthropologists define "civilization"? How is this
definition different from popular understandings of this term? How do
cultures such as the Developed North West Coast pattern fit into this
schema?
- Why is writing so important to the development of civilization? Why
did it emerge independently only five times in our history?
- How did the Maya carry out large-scale urban construction and support
high population density so successfully for so long? What do we know
about these techniques? How can archaeologists help modern people living
in the area today?
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