ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Guanaco, Rachis, Chaff
17 Jul 2016
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* with the development of agriculture, people began to settle down in permanent villages which eventually grew to towns and cities => resulted unequal societies (class divisions). * represent a very different strategy => producing their own food that involve controlled food production vs the collection of wild food resources. * hunters and gatherers exploit the natural food resources present in their environment. Agriculture produce the food they need through growing of domesticated plants and animals. * hunters and gatherers harvest whatever was living and present in the environment. * agriculture manipulates the production of resources of plants and animals. * species domesticated in the old world: wheat, rice, sheep, pigs. * species domesticated in the new world: corn, chocolate, peppers (both hot and sweet, potatoes, guinea pigs, beans, alpacas. * people modify new general characteristics and traits to produce different types of new resources such as new plants and animals.
