ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Osteology, Lesley Sharp, Mortality Rate
25 Apr 2018
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Consequences of agriculture: p. 272 (cid:862)civilized pattern of disease(cid:863) trade, status distinctions/inequality, new social networks, population growth make it easier for disease to spread. Consequences of agriculture: the epidemiological transition initiated civilized pattern of disease . Civilized not in the way may use the term as in groups can be civilized or uncivilized, not a judgment, but rather affects of civilization and population growth on disease patterns throughout the world. We tend to see, after about 10000 years ago, slow pattern, increased human interaction. Different kinds of infectious diseases, zoonosis, diseases that can be transferred to animals to humans (result from domestication) sustained contact with certain animal species as a result of agriculture and domestication. Colonialism: virgin social epidemics (p. 273, henry dobyns 90% of population in mesoamerica and andes died by mid-1500(cid:859)s. Smallpox (originally zoonotic cattle to humans); 1519 first outbreak affected taino.
