ANTH 1006 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Transhumance, Sedentism, Woodworking
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Late pleistocene/ early holocene (end on ice age) Climatic volatility, temperatures rose, ice sheets melted and large herbivores become extinct. Shift in subsistence focus, animals previously relied on became extinct. Wider range of resource exploitation, less emphasis on big game . Pastoralists- concerned with raising of livestock, by-products include mild, blood, meat, hides. Hunting and gathering, human groups followed migratory animals. Bones of fully domesticated sheep with great fat and excessive wool. Independently developed in different parts of the world. Population growth- hunting, fishing, gathering were productive and populations grew, needed more food which led to domestication.
