ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hyperostosis, Zoonosis, Haute Cuisine
23 Apr 2017
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By 30, 000 years ago, they became extinct as a hominin species. Humans then migrated and expanded further throughout the world, and into the new. Neanderthals and early homo sapiens were foragers. Foraging is a subsistence strategy (way of life that focuses upon how food is procured) In the upper paleolithic (50 - 10,000 years ago): Groups of foragers/ h and g roamed the earth: Small groups of up to 75 people. No long term, permanent villages or shelters. Fairly egalitarian/ little con ict as no distinctions in status. Natu an sites show earliest evidence for slow transition to agriculture. 11, 000 years ago in area that is now israel and jordan. Site of eynan in israel evidence for increased sedentary behaviour. Origins of agriculture not a singular event that spread around the globe: the fertile crescent (earliest evidence 11,000 - 10, 000 years ago). Domestic wheat (wild = skinny, domestic = bushy)
