ANP 443 Lecture Notes - Lecture 55: Sedentism, Pleistocene, Rachis
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Wild food procurement mobility dependent on seasonality typically only occupy territory they are familiar with occupy a seasonal round. Seasonal movements that are done to take advantage of different resources that are available at different times in different places in the year. Processing areas, animal housing, fallow fields, assemblages of entire animal carcasses opposed to specific selections of cuts. Human intervention in the reproductive cycle of plants and animals. Ice ages: when hominids migrate out of africa and begin to colonize most of the old world. Advantages and effects of food production advances human cultural evolution; sedentism, settling in cities etc. Following megafauna for food source led to the colonization across the beringa. Paleolithic (old stone age) (archaeological period) when hominids migrate out of africa and begin to colonize most of the old world. Europe and asia and eventually evolve into anatomically and behaviorally modern humans. Known as the middle stone age in the old world.
