ANTH 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Stratification, Mount Carmel, Megatherium
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10: origins of food production and settled life. Introduction: about 14,000 y. a. , some groups began to depend less on big game hunting and more on more stable resources: fish, shellfish, small game and wild plants. Increasingly more settled way of life called the epipaleolithic in the near east and the. Mesolithic: the archaeological period in the old world beginning about 12,000 b. c. Agriculture and sedentary life did not necessarily develop together: some areas of the world people began to live in permanent villages before they cultivated domesticated plants and animals- other areas people planted crops without sedentarism. Preagricultural developments- the near east (epipaleolithic: shift from mobile big game hunting to the utilization of a broad spectrum of natural resources at the end of the upper paleolithic (such as europe). Called broad-spectrum collecting: subsist on variety of resources including fish, mollusks, wild deer, sheep, goats; wild grains, nuts, and legumes (exist on many stationary food resources).
