ANT-1420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Estuary, Sedentism, Fertile Crescent
10 Nov 2016
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A: plant domestication did not come about on purpose. After years of humans picking the plants with the biggest seeds, etc. the plants began to adapt. A: villages emerging from sedentism grew the population since they had more reliable food sources, chiefs arose to organize the larger groups, and a tighter community was the result. Humans are on every continent except antartica. Only surviving species at this point are, homosapiens, All humans are hunters and gatherers one possible exception. israel. Ohaloii, cultivated plants???? not totally proven but still. They have adapted to temperate, tropical, desert-edge, coastal, montane, and island environments: 11,000 years ago. Large increase in domestication of plants and such. However, after ice age, in holocene epoch, most humans did remain hunters and gatherers: beginning of sedementism. Took place in ecotones- or the in-betweens. In coastal estuaries, lake margins, and foothill regions.
