ANTH 1120 Lecture 5: ANTH-1120 LECT 5
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Contemporary culture, such as office in vancouver, homelessness in. Contemporary social media, such as internet sites, chat rooms, facebook. Tudy of corporatio(cid:374)"s fi(cid:374)a(cid:374)ce a(cid:374)d so o(cid:374) What do we mean when we talk about progress. 4 parts of human progress: technology, better health care, more education, less poverty. Anthropologists have examined the notion of progress and change in broad cultural terms. Two of the most significant events in the human past fossil, industrial. Homo erectus to homo sapiens modern humans. 1st significant events the transition from nomadic foraging to settlements and agriculture. Anatomically (cid:373)oder(cid:374) hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s ho(cid:373)o sapie(cid:374)s li(cid:448)ed a (cid:374)o(cid:373)adic, foragi(cid:374)s (cid:449)ay of life until about 12,000-100,000 years ago. Foraging continued until population growth necessitated change population density increases. Can also be induced by climate change affecting foraging food sources in a short time period. Different forms of social organization and different forms of agriculture. 2nd significant event, the use of non-renewable forms of energy-the use of fossil fuels.