Notes for nov 23
Try to interpret ditches
Gordon childe spoke about them
5000 BC
begins somewhere around modern hungary
spreads extremely into the something basin
hard to identify what is spreading
what perhaps happened was that there was movement, as well as merging between h-g and farmers
moving, leapfrogging
Cheese products were important?
11 meters thick
concentrations of sites with houses, only one cemetery at niedermerz
villages have very large houses some of them dsfhasdklhfsld
100 hectares in extents
very first domestic structure excavated on that site
longitudinal pits I don’t get it skdjhafksdl
granneries, then idea was abandoned
now houses
no floors
artistic imagination
long houses
doors point north (south to north) btu no firm evidence
note density
post holes
rituals
stylicized
central Europe not very well endowed with flints
tremendous variety
exchanges are results rather than ultimate goals
not only trade
usually individual in crouched formation
interesting/scary about LBK
not that many women
not childbearing
people massacred, hit on the head with implements AH!
Possibly a skirmish
Atleast 4 people who were from black forest, visiting
Unfortunately got caught up
Different segments of human remains
Mach mach larger number – human remains
Treated same way as animal remains
They are effectively BUTCHERED oh no!
People coming from quite long distances
extraordinary find!
period at which strange thigns are happening, people from very long distances were sacrificed in weird way, bodies were treated like animals
cannibalism? I don’t think that’s what the lecturer had in mind.
Like..... WHAT?! Could we have some CONTEXT here Annie?! My personal favorites are "cheese products were important?" and "Possibly a skirmish."
I will say though, all my notes from that day say are "THIS IS SO GODDAMN BORING. ASK ANNIE TO SEND YOU HER NOTES LATER." So much for that idea.
In our tutorial for this class the other day, I got into a bit of a skirmish myself. If I may provide some context, our tutorial is led by a jolly man from Ohio named Riley. Notable facts about Riley:
1) he may or may not have a child (thank you, facebook)
2) his feet are very flat and it is distracting
3) he has extremely prominent jowls*, like so
So the other day our class was supposed to be about environmental archaeology, but we actually ended up talking about being vegetarian or not. Thus ensued the skirmish. The conversation went a little bit like this:
Gary: I think everyone should be a vegetarian
Emily: I like eating bacon.
Gary's 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6: WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?! HAVE YOU NO SOUL?!?!
MY natural assumption was that "bacon" was a slang term for "orphaned African babies" or something, but when I went on to explain that I also love hot diggity dogs and hamburgers and almost anything you can get at McDonalds except the McFish they were equally outraged! And thus ensued what I retrospectively call "Emily vs. the Vegetarians." I quickly deduced that EVERY person in my class was a vegetarian, and as an honest meat- eating American I decided I had to defend my country's honor by making up facts and statistics about the meat industry. So then it went something like this:
Emily: It is a well known fact that it is much less expensive to eat meat, so it is easier to feed the homeless and starving population!
Gary: You blatantly made that up. Anybody who's ever been in a supermarket could tell you that's not true.
Emily: Yeah, well the carbon emissions from producing meat shmamahaams....
Gary 2: You mumbled a little bit at the end there but I have a feeling that whatever you were trying to say is entirely false.
Emily: Yeah well, your country sucks!
Gary 3: Get out of here.
Emily: GOD BLESS TEXAS
*Annie just did a google search for "human gobblers"
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