ANTHRO 8 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Bipedalism, Sedentism, Rock Art
Document Summary
Four key concepts of the book: food/goods/work. Food: is a cultural signifier and can reveal how people engage with each other and their landscapes. 2) sense of who you are within a social group. 3) stages of sociability and human activities. Humans hand to undergo a transition from food collection to food production. Dilemma: fight over the limited resources or stay put and work together to grow food. Change in human use of the landscape for production of food. The geologic era of the holocene provides a more stable climate (starts. Question of whether the more stable climate provided the harvest opportunity or whether the increased population necessitated harvesting. The holocene era involves the beginning of food production. Landscape availability induces modern homo sapien migration. Find an area and pick its own local, starchy food staple. Agriculture involves sedentism: staying put and waiting for your food to grow. Environmental envelope in which people interacted and harvested.
