ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Rachis, Coevolution, Guitarrero Cave
24 Oct 2017
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Lecture #20, november 13, 2014 nature and causes of cultural change, part a: 2: relative population density, band: low, tribe: low to medium, chiefdom: medium to high, state: high. 11,600-7,000 bp in the near east during which people began using ground stone tools, manufacturing ceramics, and relying on domesticated plants and animals literally, the new stone age coined by sir john lubbock (in. 10,000 years ago: a middle east version of agriculture"s spread to europe and north africa between. Agriculture in africa: possibly independent domestication of cattle, ca. Mesoamerica: squash (curcurbita pepo): earliest plant domesticated in mesoamerica, earliest squash seeds: 10-8,300 b. p, ancestor of today"s squashes incld. , pumpkins, acorn squash, zucchini, spaghetti squash, etc, maize (zia mays [corn]) domesticated 6,250-5,500 yrs ago from teosinte (zia spp. ), a wild grass found in mexico"s highlands of mexico: newest data: starch grain & phytolith evidence for ca.
