ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Domestication, List Of Domesticated Animals, Ain Mallaha
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Broad-spectrum collectors in some cases developed further, leading to: origins of agriculture, agriculture: subsistence based on domesticated plants and animals. Storage/maintenance: domestication: taming of wild plants and animals by humans, involving physical and/or behavioural modification. The neolithic period earliest food producing cultures. Agriculture arose independently in multiple locations, over only a few thousand years. Timing and importance based largely on the luck of the draw , some regions had naturally occurring plants and animals that were easily domesticated. Most important are seed and root crops domestication involves selection of best individuals for planting. Seems to have happened simultaneously between 10-. 5 kya. Theories range from very fast (a few decades) to very slow (millennia) Earliest evidence is found in southwest asia 11,000 9000 b. c. e: the levant (mountainous region paralleling the eastern shore of the. Mediterranean) is where most information comes from: ain mallaha, 2000 metres squared, 200-300 people, a permanent settlement.
