ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Genghis Khan, Endemic Warfare, Labor Age
18 Jan 2017
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Depends on our ecosystem and how we adapt to it. Gardening; tropical areas; low-tech agriculture: pastoralism. Domestication of animals for purposes of getting meat/milk/manure/other resources: agriculture. Societies often mix these types environment organisms living within it: balance between the needs of the population and the potential of its. Ecosystem a system composed of both the physical environment and the. Carrying capacity limit nature places on us; number of people a resource. Anthropogenesis alter environment/ecosystem to suit our needs: keep numbers (people) in line with the resources at our disposal, adapt or die, we effect our environment and our environment effects us, e. g. Soil supports at given level of technology. For 90% of our existence we have been foragers (100,000 years ago) Food production begins 10,000 to 8,000 years ago. Cultural characteristics: division of labor age, gender, status, population density, political systems, religious systems, technology knowledge. Small groups in big territories: kinships/families.
