ANTH 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Santa Barbara City College, Mudbrick, Nabta Playa
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10000 bc, neolithic farmer still hunting gazelle, wild pigs, etf. By 8000 bc domesticated sheep and goat meke up the majority of meat. Diverse economies: mortality profiles of faunal remains indicate your male animals were slaughtered for meat, suggesting a surplus. Jarmo, 7000 bc ( shows later transition to farming. Permanetnt hillside villages: mudbrick houses (about 25) Few wild animal species indicting hunting had declined in importanse. Hacilar, anatolia, 8000 bc: modern turkey, wild animal species. Spectrographic analysis show that obsidian from the catalhoyuk region has turned up at. Center of the obsidian trade hundreds of archaeological sites in the medit sand mesop. Rise of farming in egypt and tropical africa. Perhaps result of anxiety of living in a community going through constant unpredictable environmental situations, competition with hunting. The upper nile valley: farming was an independent invention of h/g"s, farming was a strategy to cope with cycles of droughts and floods.
