ASSIGNMENT
1A. How can we measure the geographical reach of Stonehenge? Where did the people who were buried there come from? How do we know? What does this information tell us about the geographic reach of Stonehenge?
1B. What is meant by the term “complex society?” Why and how is organizing a large labor force more difficult than organizing the labor of a small group of immediate family members? What does this have to do with the evolution of complex societies? What sorts of practical concerns or challenges faced by ancient people may have led to the development of complex societies? Why and how would complex societies devote so much of their energies to the production of great monuments with no practical purpose?
Only book to be cited is THE PAST IN PERSPECTIVE- AN INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN PREHISTORY, 8th edition, Kenneth L. Feder
