ANT214H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fertile Crescent, Rachis, Staple Food
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Intensive use of wild cereals not domesticated grains. In 50s and 70s a lot of research being done as to where did domestication occur probably sw mexico: mayans cultivated various varieties of maize, do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) e(cid:454)a(cid:272)tl(cid:455) (cid:449)h(cid:455) agri(cid:272)ulture (cid:272)a(cid:373)e i(cid:374)to pla(cid:272)e. Hypothesis: maize hypothesis, direct domestication of a mexican annual teosinte, wild vs domestic wild was really thin maize and corn are almost the same thing. Involves only some members in food production: plow agriculture, a digging stick. Irrigation: earliest forms a channel on slopes from rivers to their areas, village life. Investment in agriculture: potential for greater social complexity (>200 ppl, animals that benefit b/c humans are throwing things away, sedentary living, emergence of a class of producers whose surplus benefits a ruling class. Decreased infant mortality goes down as people live in one place for longer. Iran and iraq and (zargos mountains) and hilly flanks of a taurus: pop pressure hypothesis: carl sauer.
