ANTH 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Lentil, Selective Breeding, Iva Annua
20 Sep 2016
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Neolithic (formative) period: cultural period marked by village settlement, agriculture, domestication, and new technologies, when and where, earliest at 11,000 cal bp (11 kya) in near east. b. Latest by 4 kya in east and southwest us. In some places agriculture never occurred: neolithic marked by new technologies. Food productions: agriculture, cultivation of soil, production of crops, raising of livestock, domestication a. Training of animals and plants to live with and/or be of use to humans: occurs through controlled breeding (artificial selection) Centers: tightly defined geographic areas where major advances in domestication occurred (specific valley or river) Non-centers: more diffuse areas of domestication (some are secondary to a center ) Near east (southwest asia) aka fertile crescent (la vonte) 45,000 years ago plant processing is first seen (not selectively breeding them, only, gathering: 11,000-8,000 years ago first seen of artificial breeding. Wheat, barley, lentil, goat, sheep, cattle, dog, pig (all domesticated)
