Anthropology 1025F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fertile Crescent, Neolithic Revolution, Sedentism

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 1025F/G
• Professor: Terry Webb

Document Summary

Need: shelter, health care, food, water, nurture . Biological carrying capacity: maximum population size of a species that an environment can sustain. Human capital: undernourished, uneducated we erode human capital. Social capital: interactions become eroded by disrespect exc. Human carrying capacity: size of population that can be supported indefinitely dependent on services and resources dependant on support of natural,social, human and built capital. Subsistence: type of strategy you employ to obtain food, surviving on bare minimum. Neolithic revolution stopped hunting/gathering, now you produce food, 10 thousand years ago when tools began like pottery, less hunting tools. Fertile crescent- jordan, israel, syria, iran , oldest evidence of domestication, where it started, food production, agriculture, across equator is where they think it began. Three types of crops: tree crops- bananas, plantains, figs, dates, seed crops- high in protein, wheat, barley, corn, root crops- high in starch and carbs, yams, potatoes.