ANTHRO 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Monocropping, Dust Bowl, Melanesians
14 Nov 2016
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Melanesians (islands off of australia) (right and up on a map) Note the specific cultures where they are found. Mono-cropping planting one crop in a field. Plowing causes a loss of top soil. *question on the test: compare and contrast horticulture and agriculture. High energy inputs: least efficient, least sustainable. Use of outsider energy sources: fertilizer, animals, water, fossil fuels, machinery, chemicals. The drought alone would not have caused the dust bowl and the economic collapse that followed it if farmers had not over used the land and caused the top soil to be cultivated. Bali (between australia and asia) (left of australia) - rice. Terracing to create more flat areas to grow crops and to prevent erosion. Use ducks to eat the bugs in the rice fields. Let fish in the deeper fields to eat the bugs and they use the fish as another food source.
