ANTHRCUL 101 Lecture 11: Lecture 11

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 101
• Professor: Brent Pav

Document Summary

Overview: the mesolithic, the neolithic, the first farmers and herders in the middle east, other old world farmers, the first american farmers, explaining the neolithic, anthropology today. The mesolithic: broad-spectrum revolution: 15,000 b. p. in the middle east and 12,000 b. p. in europe. Exploitation of a wider range of plant and animal resources. Led to food production by 10,000 b. p. in middle east: food production: human control over the reproduction of plants and animals, broad-spectrum revolution in europe includes the upper paleolithic and the mesolithic, which followed it. By 10,000 b. p. glaciers retreated and human range in europe extended to british isles and. New kinds of axes, chisels, and gouges emerge. Food production reached western europe only around 5,000 b. p and northern europe 500 years later. After 15,000 b. p. throughout inhabited world, big-game supply diminished and people pursued new resources: japanese site of nittano, neolithic refers to new techniques of grinding and polishing stone tools.