ANTHR101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Corm, Granary, Ice Age
13 May 2016
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Anthropology feb 12th 2016 movie culture. Cargo material goods brought by westerners almost seen as sacred cargo. Egyptians, greeks, romans, maya great civilizations, advanced technology, large populations, organizations. Back into prehistory 13000 years ago humans were thriving in the middle east same way the papua. Gathering more productive than hunting done by women. Ice age returned colder and drier world middle east many animals and plants died off. 11000 years ago end of drought village had a thing that could be the world"s first granary collectively wheat and barley. They would have started planting seeds close to their village they were becoming farmers people were now starting to control nature domestication. Except for new guinea highlands they have been farming for almost as long as the people of the. New guinea crops- taro had to be planted individually, went bad quickly, lacked protein, ate low protein banana and spiders.
