ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Maya Calendar, Sedentism, Social Stratification
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At the end of the pleistocene ( ice age) and beginning of holocene, environments were. Setting the stage for agriculture unstable and changing rapidly. Sea levels rose, restricting the amount of land available. Climate changed from cold to dry to warm and wet. E. g from tundra to forests and grasslands in southwest asia. These factors posed a great challenge to hunter-gatherers, leading to broad-spectrum. In many regions animals in large herds were replaced by more solitary species collecting. Instead of relying on a few big food sources, especially big game developement of greater reliance on multiple food sources. Often smaller package foods (think rabbits as opposed to mammoths) and foods require more specialized technologies to hunt. Broad spectrum collectors in some cases developed further leading to. Agriculture: subsistence based on domesticated plants and animals. Domestication:taming of wild plants and animals by humans, involving physical and/ or. Most important are seed and root crops.
