ANTHROP 1AA3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Zoonosis, Infant Mortality, Dual Inheritance Theory
3 May 2017
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Foragers have small, temporary settlements: agriculturalists have large permanent settlements, population, division of labour, agriculture tends towards males doing labour. Foraging communities have more even distribution of labour. Live together in small permanent settlements: need secure access to land, plant/burn/rotate, great deal of division of labour, men clear forests and fields. Its disti(cid:374)(cid:272)t fro(cid:373) horti(cid:272)ulture, (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it"s a spe(cid:272)ializatio(cid:374) rather tha(cid:374) a group (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s of survival: plow agriculture, emergence of a class of people farmers. Fundamental change of the way humans interact with their environment. From dependency on natural resources to control over domesticated resources: major changes in diet occur, changes in demography, economy etc. Investment in architecture: domestication leads to sedentism, decreased infant mortality -> increased population. Larger social groups and much greater social complexity, villages over 200 people. Agriculture is not necessarily the next step in human biocultural evolution: many populations didn"t adopt agriculture, ecology may be more suited to foraging.
