ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Homo Habilis, Homo Sapiens, Homo Erectus
8 Sep 2018
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If you see the striking platform you know it is the by-product of human activity: later, the tools take a definitive shape so it became easier to recognize, stone tools are the homo habils most distinctive feature. The anthropology of food: an archaeologist would look at agriculture, the trasnsitions to agriculture changed the way we live, this is important because this had an impact of how we live. Origins of food production: 99 percent of homo sapiens existence was of them being a hunter gatherer, all of our hominin ancestors did this. It is not until the last 12 000 years that people started to domesticate food and animals. Definition of agriculture: horticulture is when you grow your background culture, it will be consumed by a small group of people. Is it far from where you would find it in nature. Impact of agriculture: need to look at the fact that it gives your stability.
