MMW 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Natufian Culture, Social Stratification
20 Apr 2018
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The idea of an all-knowing god makes people more likely to work together. People begin burying their dead and burying them with ceremony. Before agriculture, the only way to make sure you had food was to follow it. People can"t have a lot of stuff because you can"t move a ton of stuff everywhere. Limited storage means that the work is over once you have enough food. No dawn to dusk labor like what happens when people get agriculture. People start to stay in one place because there is enough food readily available for them to settle (nothing domesticated yet) Happens independently in many places all over the globe. Get a surplus of food through agriculture and. People became dependent on just a few staple crops. People are now more vulnerable to the weather. Since people are stuck in one spot, they have to deal with the weather as it. The crops are susceptible to the weather as well.
