ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Natufian Culture, Neolithic, Fertile Crescent
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Moved along pacific coast from asia on boats. Archaic (new world aka north and south america) Sea levels rose due to melting glaciers. Tundra replaced by deciduous forests due to changing coastlines. Leads to regionalization - changing regional environments around the world, local populations will adapt to their new local environment. Increase in seasonality in some areas of the world. New lakes & rivers (in land fresh water sources) Small, usually less than 3 dozen = very mobile. Egalitarian, decisions made within kinship group and everyone would get an opinion. Influences over the band depended on age and sex. Stay in camps for long periods of time. How to identify from foragers: any permanent structures at a homebase. Transhumanance: when foragers follow the seasonal migration of small herd animals (earliest evidence in middle east in kebaran culture) Difference between low level food and agriculture = domestication. Earliest low level food producers not agriculture.
