ANTH265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lake Titicaca, Lomas, Cloud Forest
13 Nov 2016
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Andes: ecuador, peru, bolivia, chile: these countries have populations that have identified heavily with being indigenous. Circumscribed environments : these populations were locked in by mountain ranges and had to develop intensive strategies to get the most out of their location. Seals, sea lions, etc as a result of the rich populations of smaller fish in the river mouths. Shellfish is the richest resource out of all of them. Lomas (cloud forest/scrubland: lots of vegetation as a result of fog and clouds providing moisture, lomas is wet enough that it can be farmed, hunting and gathering is less useful here as it is agriculturally rich. Altiplano - puna : dry but can be farmed, floodplains of drainages from braided rivers are productive and good for agriculture, lake titicaca, bolivia, 12,500 feet elevation, 3232 sq miles, 932 feet deep i. Raised for food, important food source throughout the andean region.
