ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Simpletech, Animal Husbandry, Digging Stick
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Week six anth*1150 introduction to anthropology october 12th. Read chapter 5 and making a living , subsistence strategies or food getting . Patterns of subsistence food procuring strategies, called the subsistence round. Horticulture small scale cultivation of crops using hand tools (hoes, digging stick) Anthropogenesis process whereby ecosystems are influenced or altered by humans. Ecosystem composed of both the physical environment/organism living within it. Adaptation creates a moving balance between the needs and potential of an environment: both a physical process and a social process. It states the human beings have a social structure required that has a hierarchy in order: ex: humans have gone from being scavengers, to hunters, to collectors, to producers. These modes have the same goal of sustaining physical/social needs. Foragers are people who do not farm or practice animal husbandry. They must live where food sources are available and this necessitates for frequent movement to survive.