ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Fertile Crescent, Einkorn Wheat, Carrying Capacity
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Pleistone also known as the ice age ; stretched from 1. 8 my to 10 000 ya. Holocene about 10 000 ya and continuing to the present. Mesolithic: at the end of the pleisocene and before the beginning of the agricultural revolution, evidence of eating fish in the neolithic there is evidence of fish hooks, tools: microliths and some ground stone tools. New method of making tools: grinding the rock away. Neolithic: date perhaps 12 000 years ago but this varies from place to place, major cultural changes. Production of polished stone tools (they don"t have flake scars created by grinding lasts longer . Pottery (different cultures have different forms of pottery uses cross-dating ) Pathological changes as we were domesticating animals, we were domesticating ourselves . Geographic distribution exotic, an animal that is not from a particular area : distinctive features of domesticated plants.
