ANT201H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Original Affluent Society, Kalahari Desert, Hunter-Gatherer
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The deliberate raising of animals and cultivation of cereal grasses and edible root plants. Secondary by-products = i. e. wool from sheep, milk, cheese, tobacco and alcohol. Merchant classes, priestly classes that might not directly be involved in the food production largest civilizations based on cultivation of 6 plant genera. Corn (maize), wheat, rice, potato"s, barley, millet. A relationship between humans and the plant/animal world. How they interact with them, how the animals n plants rely on them the change in the gene pool in the plant and animal from coevolutionary processes. Corn today has a lot more kernels and its much larger in size. Domestic sheep have more wool than the wild sheep. Emerged at different times in different parts of the world but broadly within the same latitude. Benders exchange and social obligations- doesn"t answer why domestication, but why intensify food collection and production. Look at the internal social causes instead of external env.
