SOCY 200 Lecture Notes - Horticulture, Ert3, Noh
31 Oct 2013
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1 hunting and gathering society: approximate date of first appearance around 100,000 b. c. e, average population size about 40 people per area. They were mostly small but some areas consisted of a larger population: defining technology - hunting bow, arrow spear. 2 fishing society 2nd rarest society: approximate date of first appearance 9,000 b. c. e, average population size 90 people, defining technology fishing: spears, fishhooks, nets, traps, boats, paddles. More sedentary, complex, and unequal than hunting & gathering, 3 simple horticultural society: approximate date of first appearance 8,000 b. c. e, average population size 1500 people, defining technology plant cultivation with digging sticks, hoes. 4 herding society: approximate date of first appearance 6,000 b. c. e, average population size 5750. Separated into about 75 different communities: defining technology herding domesticated animals. With camels or horses, lots of war. 5 advanced horticultural society: approximate date of first appearance 4,000 b. c. e, average population size - 5250, defining technology plant cultivation soft metal hoes; metallurgy.
