ANTHR-130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Stone Tool, Domestication, Plants And Animals
12 Oct 2020
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Food production= domestication of plants and animals. 11,000 bp): as a species we spent 90% of our history as hunter- gatherers. Food production allows more complex forms of society. Food production as a necessary condition for the development of social complexity. With the exception of select cases of complex hunter-gatherers, social complexity occurs in context of agriculture. No large scale complex societies among foragers. No large scale complex societies among pastoralist. Domestication= genetic modification of wild forms more useful to humans. Emergence of food production associated with the neolithic. Human-induced morphological/behavioral change in plants and animals that render the species dependent on humans for reproduction and survival . Tamable species in old world: wild ox, goat, sheep, pig, dog, gregarious animals. 3 important factors: constraint on movement, regulation of breeding, control of feeding. Assemblages = random sample ages & sexes. New type of stone technology: grinding & polishing techniques added to flaking. Food production: domestication of plants & animals.
