CHYS 3P95 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Amazon Rainforest, Sub-Saharan Africa, Stonehenge
5 Apr 2017
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Class business: exams should be ready after reading week. Why the shift to agriculture: 5 possible reasons (dr. s. j. Wolf, csu): cultural progress oldest and most basic hypothesis, changing climate hypothesis, population pressure hypothesis, food abundance hypothesis, co-evolution. Cultural progress: assumes that motivation is obvious: agriculture would be less work, more reliable, and more productive than foraging. Also assumes people needed lots of time to develop sufficient knowledge of plants and animals to permit domestication, or the good fortune to stumble upon this knowledge. Cultural progress support this hypothesis grow, why they grow, etc: observations from multiple hunter/gatherer societies such as the !kung (african pygmies) don"t, they know about plants/growth and consciously choose to not grow plants! Know how plants: are not nutritionally deprived, studies have shown their diet is more than adequate! The average an agriculturalist) agriculture: can jam more people (more food: do not spend any more time procuring food than farmers!
