ANT-2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Original Affluent Society, Shifting Cultivation
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Sustainable when untouched by outside influences and with abundant land available. Crucial resources regenerated over time in balance with the demand the population makes on them. Forager"s needs are modest the original affluent society. Foragers typically work about 5 hours a week, gathering food minimal labor efforts and repairing tools leaves them with more time for storytelling, playing games and resting traditionally enjoy good health. Mode based on cultivation domestic plants in gardens using hand tools. Garden crops often supplemented by foraging and trading with pastoralists for animal products. Yams, corn, beans, grains (such and millet and sorghum) and several types of roots, all of which are rich in protein, minerals and vitamins involves the use of handheld tools. Requires crop rotations to regenerate the soil/plot thus another name for horticulture is shifting cultivation. Average plot sizes are less than 1 acre. 2. 5 acres can support a family of 5-8 for a yearl.
