ANTHRCUL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Desert Pavement, Coevolution, Centralized Government

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 101
• Professor: Thomas Chivens

Document Summary

What is the backstory: remember the integrated characteristic of culture, foraging social dynamics varied, but tended toward relative egalitarianism, agricultural social dynamics varied, but tended to produce social inequality. Behavioral changes associated with agriculture: sedentism, storage and preservation, property. What is this in contrast to: mobility, nomadic lifestyle, sharing as a social strategy. Neolithic : cultural period in a region in which the first signs of food production are present. First serious neolithic occurred in the middle east 10000 years ago. 17000-12000 years ago o: reduction in big-game animals o, the bsr is not the origins of agriculture itself, but rather the factors and. Initiated the broad spectrum revolution relies on the food sources and plant sources: period of time with a reliance on an increased diversity on plants, animals, and food sources with faster life cycles. Dry farming and caprine domestication (10000-7500 years ago) First food producers in the middle east :