ARKY 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Sedentism, Quinoa, Chenopodium
Document Summary
Between 11 000 years ago and 2 000 years ago, the vast majority of the world"s people shited their subsistence economies from foraging (huning and gathering) to food producion (agriculture) Danger of overemphasis of a smaller number of food sources (relying on a fewer number of crops) Food producion is based on the domesicaion of a wild plant and animal species. Mean seed or animal size: a change in the mean size of animals exploited by human beings may also be an indicator of human acivity as people select for certain traits and characterisics. Seed morphology: selecion may be at work where the archaeological record shows the development of a predominance of nonbritle atachments of seeds in plants harvested by ancient people, and in the growth of denser clusters of seeds. Osteological change: lightly constructed bones of otherwise wild animals found in archaeological contexts may be interpreted.