Romana Haider ANTH 1400: Digging thee Past Chapter five How were societies organized? Archeology itself is different from cultural and social anthropology. With social and cultural anthropology it is easier for them to study people and their way of life. That is because they are living. So they can observe and study their behaviors. What tolls they use, what do they eat and what is their everyday task? There is so much you can learn from them. However, for archeologist this is a bit difficult. Since they don’t have the living people from the past here in the future. They have to piece together what they know about the past societies by their findings. They have to piece together what they find to know what they did on an everyday basis, what they ate and much more. When excavating a site …show more content…
They had a kinship based ranking under hereditary leaders. Their economic organization was central accumulation and redistribution they even had some craft specialist. Finally in the state they had about 20,000+ people in their society. They lived in urban cities and towns. In this society they had taxation and laws. Their social organization was class-based hierarchy under king or emperor armies. As I was reading all those four classification you can see when they go to the next classification they eventually evolve. They have more people part of the society and they start to settle and have leaders. Also, the individuals start performing one task. In the hunter-gatherer state, they would do many things together. Go hunting, make tools and much more together. However the more they started to settle down in settlement the less they worked together. They started just mastering on task. For example one person would be a farmer; the other would be a craftsman and so on. They basically become a specialist in one field besides working together to get it done together like they did them the hunter and gatherer