GEOG 1220 Lecture Notes - Interaction Model, Pleistocene, Shifting Cultivation
2 Apr 2013
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Early humans: tools- created these tools and began to dominate nature, fire: domesticated fire, ecological knowledge. Evolution of tools: quartzite obsidean copper bronze iron steel. Types of early societies: lower paleolithic or early stone age (>10,000 years b. p. ) Highly mobile populations: the upper paleolithic (~8,500 10,000 years b. p. ) Manipulative control of wild plant and animal resources. More considered use of fire: neolithic or late stone age (5,000-8,500 years b. p. ) Gradual replacement of wild species and hunter gatherer strategies with domesticated plants and animals. Exchange networks (trade: bronze age (<5,000 years b. p. ) Agricultural societies are characterized by the cultivation of domesticated plants and animal for human use. No idea where plant domestication began: possible we saw animals eating the plants wheat, remove predators so there was more wheat, collected the largest seed it would produce large seeds) We increasingly manipulated the world around us and the resources. Definition: the rotation grazing of domesticated herbivores (sustainable form of agriculture)
