ANTH100 Lecture Notes - Fertile Crescent, Domestication

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Nancy Barrickman

Document Summary

Plants may have shaped the world into how it looks. New guinean people are some of the most adaptable people. Well organized work force is common in ancient cultures. Middle was far more forested and hunter gatherers roamed. A catastrophic change in the climate caused world to become colder and drier. The middle east became drier and colder, animals died off and humans had to look further than ever to find food. People were starting to put down roots in areas with oval huts living in communities (11, 500 years ago it emerged) They could dry grains, store food on a year around basis to help survive year around. They start bringing food sources back to them, instead of going where they are. The humans in the middle east were becoming farmers, the first farmers. Hunter gatherers could not maintain food without being farmers. After middle east, china had rice, corn in usa, africa it was yams.