GGR101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Kent V. Flannery, Seed Dispersal, Homo Habilis
6 Mar 2019
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Lecture 6 outline: overview of the origins of agriculture, part 1: overview of foraging and farming societies, part 2: domesticates in global perspective. Plant and animal domestication: domestication as a process, contrast with hunter gather style of food subsistence, hunter gatherers: hunt and collect foods, agriculturalists: full-time farmers. Continued plant and animal domestication: domestication as a process, earliest members of our genus were likely scavengers (homo habilis, early human hunted and gathered, history of farming only around 10,000 years old. Thomas hobbes (1588-1678: the natural state of mankind, leviathan, or the matter, forme, and power of a commonwealth, ecclesiastical and civil (1651, whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of warre, where every man is. Enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time, wherein men live without other security, than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
