ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Upper Paleolithic, Fertile Crescent, Quinoa
13 Nov 2015
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Anthrop 1aa3 - lecture #22 - origins of agriculture. What happened to neanderthals: some interbred with homo sapiens, 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. World (americas), probably about 20,000 years ago: many possible theories as to why the neanderthals became extinct, but none are certain. 99% of human history as foragers: human timeline: 5 million years, didn"t start growing food until about 12,000 years ago, affected our health, nutrition, development of cities, and many more areas of modern life. The upper paleolithic (50-10,000 years ago: groups of foragers roamed the earth, small groups of up to 75 people, nomadic. 17,000-10,000 years ago: extinction of many large-game species (mega-fauna), such as wooly mammoths, etc, could be caused by changes in climate and other reasons, not by overhunting or anything caused by humans, shift to collecting/gathering.
