ANTH-2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Domestication, Social Change, Upper Paleolithic
19 Oct 2017
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I. time frame for describing early human economic activities. A broad prehistoric period during which stones was widely used to make implements. Ii. the broad-spectrum revolution in the mesolithic period. Change of hunting strategies (hunted rabbits, foxes, and small animals because the big game was diminishing; dogs were domesticated) This revolution gradually led to more than a million years!) (greek for small stone ); small and delicately shaped stone tools. Microlithic human control over the reproduction of plants and animals--purposeful domestication. There were 148 possible but only 14 were domesticated (people faced 200,000 plants but only 12 plants were domesticated--wheat, barley, potatoes, etc) Sheep and goats: the first animals to be domesticated. Food production emerged at roughly the same time in 7 regions across the world. A mutually supportive relationship between farming and herding. The meager inventory of available plants and animals was not able to sustain food production in north. The first plant domesticates: squash, sunflower, and goosefoot.
