GEOG 1220 Lecture 3: GEOG 1220 – Week 3
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A dip in the huge animal and herbivores. Relationships between animals and human would adapt to each other. Humans had small groups and low birth rates. Small stable population and short lived and nomadic. Agricultural societies are characterized by the cultivation of domesticated plants and animal for human use. Domestication: the controlling of the genetics of a plant or animal population by the planned selection of plant seed and animals parents. ** the cow can"t be redomesticate them because the avroch is extinct. When the resources run out you move on and then when those run out you move on again. This was a sustainable form of agriculture because you only return to where you started when the first area is restored to how it was before. The restoration of a landscape depends on the precipitation (between 1-5 years) There is cultural value in certain objects (back then the greater the heard the more powerful that you appeared)