ANTHR-130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Ruling Class, Dental Caries, Environmental Degradation
24 Aug 2020
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China: china was one of the firs areas to develop farming based on millet and rice, millet northern china, rice southern china yangtze river, these appear to be independent inventions. Independent centers of domestications: middle east- wheat, barley, sheep, goats, cattle and pigs, andes- s, southern china, mesoamerica, more in book. Maize- corn: teosinte is the wild ancestor of maize, starch grain analysis from panama shows maize grown there by 7800-7000. Bp: by 4000 bp maize was present and became more important than other foods and mesquite trees were converted to corn fields, teosinte and corn. Millet: millet domesticated twice in two different places, china and africa, old world and new world domestication occurred around the same time based on the date of squash seeds found in peru. A dozen plants out of 200,000 account for 80% of the worlds farm production. A society that lacks social status distinctions. Distinctions are based on: age, gender, individual qualities, talents, and achievements.
