ANT201H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Animal Husbandry, Wild Grass, Plants And Animals
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About certain things that happen during the years of hominids. Origins of bipedalism 5-10 mya: a biological anthropological question, many implications first tools. Origins of tool use 2. 5 > mya. Origins of modern humans 200 kya: don"t know why we started tools, the term progress" isn"t used in archaeology, another biological question no answer, still looking. Origins of social complexity 6 kya: urbanism, towns and cities, camps. E. g. domestication of species: one of the pieces of evidence. E. g. teosinte (wild grass grown in mexico) > maize (another word for corn) Primary (indigenous) origins*: a place where domestication of species occurred independently in any place else, 7 areas that are on the planet, identified as primary origins, aka hearts & centres. All mapped to dates in the textbook. Papua new guinea: evidence for earliest domesticated species beginnings of resource production = 12 bp****, not a solid date when a magic line was crossed to independence, beginnings (maize) = 5 bp**
