1. What are the social and economic features of Upper Palaeolithic communities which distinguish them and may partially explain their successes? [10]
2. Mellars surveys various theories for the emergence and proliferation of mobiliary and parietal art in the Upper Palaeolithic, what general features does he deduce from his brief survey of the various interpretations and what does he himself argue is the most productive approach to the phenomenon? [10]
3. Explain what is meant by the ‘Social relations of production’. [2]
4. Hodder’s interpretive strategy for understanding the material evidence at Catal Höyük is to speak of ‘four spheres of activity’. He says that these spheres are entangled, writing, for example, that: “To move the location of an oven may not seem like much, but in its entanglements such a change can have broad impact.” Explain, with examples, Hodder’s idea of ‘entanglement’. [15]
5. In Marxist historical analysis what is: Infrastructure & Superstructure. [3]
6. Define: sedentary; subsistence; demographic. [1.5]
7. In logic what do these terms mean: induce; deduce; infer; dialectic. [2]
8. Explain the difference between necessary and sufficient conditions. [2]
9. In art what do these terms mean: naturalistic and schematic; mobiliary and parietal. [2]
10. To what do these refer: Anatolia, the Levant, the Fertile Crescent. [1.5]
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