ANTH 2140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ester Boserup, Ian Hodder, Lewis Binford
5 Dec 2012
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Transition from hunter/gatherer to food production was not uniform process. At least 8 independent centres for domestication of plants and herd animals. No evidence of this in europe, asia or australia. Hunters increasingly settled in late paleolithic period. Status differentiation: basketry, pottery, ceramics (the worlds first synthesized material, beakers found in a number of caves in china dating ca. Jomon handmade pottery from japan has both functional and ritual symbolic uses: some quite ornate, 13 kya, no compelling evidence of status difference in this region. What species was domesticated first: dog. 5 mitochondrial dna lineages in dog genome. Multiple domestications in china, europe and middle east. Became reliant on humans for food (wolves) Archaic period dog burials popular in north america. Evidence dogs were eaten in later periods. Relied on cereal grains and larger animals. Unable to survive and reproduce without human intervention.
