AN101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Neolithic, Epipaleolithic
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Removing animals from their environment and placing them in a human setting: the first domesticated crop was barely in sw asia, 11,000 bc, dogs were domesticated ~7,000 bc. Population pressures climate change: domestication seen as the outcome of pop pressures, postglacial climate change made the world drier and led populations to suffer from famine. Broad spectrum foraging: the climate change forced humans to change their diet, and led to hunting, fishing, and gathering. Growth in population led to more secure subsistence based-economy. Natufians: epipaleolithic peoples lived about 12,500 ya in the area that is now israel and jordan. Their diet was based on big-game hunting (deer, sheep, goats): neolithic age: Play: play is the ability to do the same things in different ways or different things in the same ways - part of everyday life, culture, the patterns of play differ among different culture. Highly creative process, requires using both body and mind.
