ANTH 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Mechanised Agriculture, Functional Response, Carrying Capacity

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1150
• Professor: Victor Gulewitsch

Document Summary

All living beings must satisfy certain basic needs to stay alive. Throughout the centuries people have developed patterns of subsistence (food collection strategies) of which there are 5 patterns: foraging, pastoralism, horticulture, intensive agriculture, and mechanized agriculture. This promoted more mosquitos, increase in malaria ect. Thus people change their environment and their environment changes them: human ecologists- study human eco systems. Focusing on how people interact with their environment: adaptation must also be understood from a historical point of view. Groups changing places would have to readily adapt to different life styles, they would learn from others and teach them their ways. Mobility and technology: they must live where food is available so it is necessary for frequent movement. It is not aimless wandering but is set with fixed territory. Hunting styles and equipment played a role in determining population size and movement. Camp organization: usually consisted of less then 100 people.