BIO 346 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Venus Figurines, Wild Fields, Euphrates
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Population size of world - 250,000 people. Behavioral evidence of change in human behavior. Cave art, elaborate stone tools, venus figurines (spain - might have been neanderthals - still in europe at the time) Behaviorally modern leisure to develop art. 12 kya - the last major ice age ended. Some were sedentary - lived in villages (not as nomadic lifestyle) Till now - climate has been unusually stable. People had time to acquire cultural knowledge of how to live in a particular environment. 3 kya population = 60,000,000 (10x population growth in 8 kya) Middle east = fertile crescent - modern day iraq: ~15-11 kya. Stone houses near wild fields of grains harvested (developed stone tools: sickles, bowls, grinding stones) Stored grain in small pits for longer periods of time. Ground cereals, seeds & tuber into flour cooked on stone (like pita) Didn"t need to invent agriculture as a society - no need for it yet.
