GEOG 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Evergreen Forest, Lower Paleolithic, List Of Domesticated Animals
8 Feb 2018
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Evolution of tools: quartzite, obsidean, copper, bronze. Human impact on the environment: bronze age (<5,000 years b. p. ) Intensification of agriculture: less reliance on hunting and gathering, more domesticates, more and larger settlements, metal technology, more sophisticated trade networks. Believed we had a low birth rate and were short lived. Agricultural societies are characterized by the cultivation of domesticated plants and animal for human use. Why agriculture: you could gain more calories through agriculture, you could store animals, times of need you would still have food because there were animals available to you. Cattle- all animals that have been domesticated have a wild/not domestic animal but with cows the un domesticated cow called boruch is extinct so after there are no more cows there will be no more cows to domesticate. Types of agricultural societies: pastoral nomadism, definition: based on the herding of domesticated animals, environmental impacts, cultural value, natural variability of resources in a resource-limited environment (and carrying capacity)
