ANTH 1006 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Stone Tool, Transhumance, Woodworking
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Anth 1006 , lecture 4 , agricultural and urban revolutions. The rise of civilization and the decline in health. Paleolithic period - 2. 5 mya - 18,000 ya. Late pleistocene/ early holocene end of ice age . End of paleolithic period - 20,000 - 18,000 bp. Importance : during the mesolithic period we see the process (changes) leading to the domestication of plants and animals. Involves very limited crop production, mainly migratory herds of animals. Economic production strategy concerned with the raising of livestock. The care, tending and use of animals by-products : milk, blood, meats, hides. Wild plants found in different ecological zones were being used primarily in those zones. Herds were protected from the effects of natural selection (ie. wolves and other predators) Brought into marginal areas, where they do not grow naturally. Mutually advantageous association between 2 different organisms. Selected plants and animals can no longer survive without humans due to genetic changes.
