ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Fertile Crescent, Ice Age, Rachis
6 Dec 2016
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How and when did we transition from foraging for food to settling down and cultivating food - in relation to archaeology. By 30,000 years ago, they became extinct as a hominin species. Humans then migrated and expanded further throughout the world, and into the new. Neanderthals ad early homo sapiens were foragers. Foraging is subsistence strategy (way of life that focuses upon how food is procured) Huge impact on your life stay, and what you live behind. 99% of human history as foragers/hunter and gatherer - in the last 12,000 years we started agriculture. Extinction of many large game species (megafauna) - one kill would last a very long time. Less nomadic pop"ns and start to settled down for longer periods of time. Natufian sites show earliest evidence for slow transition to agriculture. 11,000 years ago in area that is now israel and jordan.
