ANTH 1006 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pastoralism, Glossary Of Ancient Roman Religion, Carrying Capacity
1. Foraging
- Carrying capacity goes down in winter - snow on the ground - covers plants
- Population changes consderably during winter (environment change - carrying
capacity)
- Egalitarian
- Social level mechanisms -
- Constant movement meant a great diet (acess to many foods)- Foragers have the best
diet!
2. Horticulture
Sedentary** - to stay put
●DOES NOT MAKE INTENSIVE USE OF LAND LABOR CAPITAL OR MACHINERY
○No fertilizer
●To leave land alone - fallow
●Just because they weret using machinery, doesn’t mean it was simple - this was their survival
○Extensive type of technology
●They don’t invent storage
●When they have exta food - this is were we see invention of potery and storage
●Still hunting, gathering, fishing while waiting for seeds to grow
●Egalitarian - smaller population
●As the population grows and kinship ties strain, that’s when your policts come in - "hey its their
plants not yours"
●THEYRE NOT AS MOBILE AS THE FORAGERS**
●Their diet is not as good as the forager
●Women garden in the morning and ??
●Horitcultre - you work in the morning and in the night you …
●Land places for plants are close together
●Once you have a surplus, you now need someone to tell you the "ruleS"
●Line of decent / people related
