CLST 129 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Frankfurt School, Noam Chomsky, Classic Maya Collapse
6 Sep 2016
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An example: binford"s explanation of the origins of food production: The starting point: human groups in the near east were sedentary before food production. Rising sea level after the end of the ice age. Reduction of coastal plains used by hunter-gathers, increased access to fish and fowl. Increased availability of food which allows human groups to be sedentary. Population increase thanks to the new lifestyle and need for more food. Instead of a crisis and the return to nomadic lifestyle, the response if the use of new sources of food. This model could apply to any other area and time to explain the origins of agriculture. The effects of ecological change are reconstructed and a model is built, based on the assumption that, given known conditions, the result is predictable. Change in society is caused mainly by the contradictions between the forces of production and social organization.
