ANT 10CD Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Social Stratification, Neolithic Revolution, Global Change

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Means by which a group adapts to its situation to provide at least the necessities. In the last 90,000 years modern humans have spread into all possible ecological niches ex) arctic north, hot deserts, cold deserts, rain forests, high altitude. 95% of modern human existence adaptive strategies didn"t change. Single adaptive strategies allowed the species to spread across the globe. Only in the last 12,000 years have adaptive strategies changed. Adaptive strategies have correlated with other aspects of social organization. Until 12,000 years ago all human societies foraged (aka hunted and gathered) The human population was about 5 million individuals globally. Most environments would have been much more food rich than environments in which modern foragers live(d) Adoption of cultivation is much more irregular than once thought. Live in contact with other peoples and rely on some degree (or a great degree) on non-foraging sources of food. A group of individuals related by kinship or marriage.

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