ANTH 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ohalo, Paleoethnobotany, Vicia
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Agriculture: producing food from domesticated plants and animals. Domestication: plants and animals become genetically modified through a human controlled process of selection. One domesticated plants and animals become dependent on humans. Cereals: principal crop eg wheat, barely, rice, maize, millet, sorghum. Archaeobotany: the study of plant remains used by past humans. Seeds: generally get bigger & easier to harvest. Propagation: selection and sowing of seeds or breeding animals. Husbandry: tending of plants/animals during growth period. Storage of seeds and maintenance of animals during non-reproductive periods. Starch grains of wild barely found in a crack on the ground stone surface. Provide evidence for the processing of barley seeds into flour that could have later been baked into bread. Oasis hypothesis: domestication began in oasis during dry period. Natural habitat hypothesis: domestication occurred in regions with wild progenitors. Population pressure hypothesis (edge hypothesis): population pressure forced a change in food acquisition.
