ANT101H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Epipaleolithic, Neolithic, Record Plant
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Explain the important difference between domestication and agriculture. Compare and contrast environmental and cultural theories that explain the beginning of farming and herding. Identify and explain the major kinds of archaeological evidence that researchers use as indicators of early plant and animal domestication. Explain the major ways in which the development of farming and herding differed in the old and new worlds. By the end of the last ice age, humans were living in most of the world"s inhabitable places. Two of the most profound and far-reaching developments of later prehistory were the shift from hunting and gathering to food production and the emergence of the early civilizations. Neolithic revolution childe"s term for the far-reaching consequences of food production. The change from hunting and gathering to agriculture is often called the neolithic revolution. Farmers employed nature to produce only those crops and animals that humans selected for heir own exclusive purposes. Neolithic new stone age; period of farmers.
