ANTHRO 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Kent V. Flannery, Lewis Binford, Ester Boserup
Document Summary
It is of great interest to anthropologists of why societies have different methods of getting food. It is believed that foraging has been practiced everywhere. Lewis binford argues that fishing is important in cold climates. 80% of horticulture practice in the tropics, 75% that practice intensive horticulture are not in the tropics. Pastoralists are in the grassland regions of the earth. These regions may be steppes (dry, low grass cover), prairies (taller, better watered grass), or savannas (tropical grasslands) During the period from about 40,000 to about 15,000 years ago, people got most of their food from hunting and migratory animals. The first evidence of a changeover from food production to cultivation and domestication was in the near east in about 8000 bc. There is some evidence of cultivation in china, se asia, and africa around 6000 bc. Highlands of mexico, 7000 bc and peru 6000 bc.
