ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Plants And Animals, Neolithic Revolution, Selective Breeding
Document Summary
In europe and asia, they use the term neolithic to refer to this time period. Cultivation: people encouraging the growth and the reproduction of particular plants by: planting them in favorable locations and possibly giving them water, plants might or might not be domesticated (dependent on humans) Agriculture: page 343, it is a specific type of cultivation, the encouragement of growth and reproduction of domesticated plants, farming is another term people use for agriculture. Domestication is about changes in the plant or animal genotype & phenotype (evolutionary process) Cultivation & agriculture are about changes in human behavior (cultural process) Settlement: big decrease in mobility, there is no individual ownership of the land, community owns the land, building of more permanent house structures, start to see more cemeteries in communities, start to see more use of pottery. Material culture: pottery can be used for food (pots) or for individualized identification, grinding tools.
