ANTH265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Field System, Karst, Entomophily
16 Nov 2016
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Relatively new information gathered by researchists and archaeoligists. Initial domestication took place in mesoamerica (corn is the best known example) All societies (complex) talked about in this class are based on agricultural food productions, often using irrigation and labor-intensive landscape transformations. Trinity of northern american and mesoamerican indian agriculture. Corn, beans and squash came from low latitude areas. Scotty macneish (1918 - 2001) -----> what we know about south and mesoamerican domestication. Neolithic revolution (v. gordon childe) - peopled adopted agriculture because they were. Finally able to do so abandoned mobile lifeways. Macneish showed that the development of domesticated plants was a slow and gradual process. Sedantism and intensive wild plant utilization predated true agriculture. Current view is that they had to switch to agriculture, not because they were able to. Most evidence of early agriculture comes from dry areas. Important note: aritifical enhancement of the landscape to maximize agriculture.
