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Why Did Humans Settle Down, Build Cities, and Establish States?
- Discuss how archaeologists recognize social complexity in the archaeological record.
- What is the relationship between social complexity and the development of domestication and agriculture?
- What is the difference between domestication and agriculture?
- Discuss evidence that suggests that the Natufians were transitioning from hunting and gathering/foraging to an agricultural form of subsistence?
- What are some of the reasons for the development of agriculture?
- How and why did social complexity develop in the Andes?
- What is the archaeological evidence for social complexity?
- What is the impact of social inequality on early societies?