ANT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Lewis Binford, Pleistocene, Sedentism
10 Dec 2020
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Hypothetical explanations of why domestication occurred include: Suggests a circumstance in which plants/animals/humans would have clustered in confined areas near water. V. gordon childe argued that the only solution to the competition for food in these situations would have been for humans to domesticate and control the animals and plants. Therefore domestication emerged as a symbiotic relationship for the purpose of human survival. (referencing also the oases and riverine areas in the nile. River/egypt, for example, that had a period of aridity and where vegetation grew only around limited water sources) The theory that domestication began as a symbiotic relationship between humans, plants, and animals at oases during the desiccation of southwest asia at the end of the pleistocene . Population pressure hypothesis the theory that the earliest domesticated appeared in the area that their wild ancestors inhabited (ex, looking at greenland) Humans would have been familiar with the species that were to be domesticated.
