CAS AR 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Late Glacial, Einkorn Wheat, Epipaleolithic
9 Feb 2018
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Neolithic: new stone age (begins in near east ca. Climate change, prime mover for culture change: 24000-19000 bp: late glacial maximum (lgm) of terminal pleistocene: very cold and dry. Demographic pressure in some parts of world and resource competition. 12800-11700 bp: younger dryas (yd) crisis: cold period. First villages and farming at end of yd in n. levant ca. Ohao l, lgm submerged site, sea of galilee, ca. Hunger gatherers collecting wild wheat and barley, olives, nuts, fruits, ground cereals to make world"s first bread : trial and error. Neolithic (new stone tools to harvest and farm, villages were formed) Worldwide warming occurred at end of pleistocene. Winter cereals/grass seeds (wild eincorn wheat, barley) Trees with leathery leaves (pistachio, oak, olive, cedar, pine) New model: no simple transition from hunting and gathering to farming (hunters still exist in this world. Climatic change (colder climate of yd, ca. Moore and g. hillman: climatic was the major instigator of agriculture.
