ANTH 2240 Lecture Notes - Spermatozoon, Scapegoating, Phlegm
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Domestication and sedentism: a turning point at least 12. 5 thousand years ago, when the groups started domesticating animals and used them for food and other aspects of living, as well as growing their own plants, this made the groups take to a sedentary lifestyle, note this wasn"t the case for all groups around the world at the time, some groups tried it, failed, and went back to the hunting and gathering lifestyle, some of the early domesticates included: grass, wheat, sheep, goats, cattle, and dogs (believed to be the first domesticated. Not for food, but rather as an extra set of eyes or ears while hunting or farming): neolithic is another word for this lifestyle, with the populations becoming more and more successful at domesticating animals, and being fed reliably through agriculture, it made the population shift from a nomadic lifestyle to a sedentary one, populations started to grow until, thousands of years later, cities started to take form.