CAS AR 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Lewis Binford, Common Wheat, Social Stratification
26 Mar 2016
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Sedentary villages, ceramics, pop. growth, & more complex social organizaion. Legumes: high protein, low yields, nitrogen ixing, companion crop to cereals, supplemental in diets. Domesic plants: develop typical characterisics, fruit/seeds do not disperse easily. Imp. in middle east & e asia: easier to collect by people & transport for processing, e. g. Husk on corn; non-shatering rachis on barley: more or larger fruits. Unintenional selecion human interacion w/ plants can introduce new selecive pressures. End of pleistocene: broad spectrum shit (foraging, pop. expansion, & sedentary life) Late pleistocene/early holocene adaptaions: enviro. changes, glaciers retreat, megafauna move n, cultural adaptaions, huning small non-group animals, diverse plant life, hunter-gatherer bands, microliths & other specialized harvesing tools. X: mesolithic (europe)=epipaleolithic (near east) =archaic (new world) Agr: domesicaion, culivaion, herding: transiion to agr, perceived beneits, beter diet, more reliable food supply, ease of procurement of food supply, afects many. Xi: gordon childe (1892-1957) australian prehistorian who coined the phrases.
