ANTHROP 1AA3 Chapter : Anthropology - Food & Nutrition - Part 3.docx
16 Sep 2013
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Vere gordon childe"s neolithic revolution: major economic revolution during period of severe drought in. Southwest asia: climate crisis caused symbiotic relationship between humans and animals, new economies ensured richer and more reliable food source, good for people who were starving because of ice age. Robert j. braidwood: rejected childe"s hypothesis, economic change came from ever increasing cultural differentiation and specialization of human communities, human experimentation made it possible to domesticate animals, people were culturally receptive to new subsistence patterns. Hunger-gatherer societies more complex and well adapted to food production before planting foods/penning animals. Abandoned gathering because populations reached limit that food resources could no longer support. Food production led to higher population densities. Barbara bender (1985): hunter-gatherer societies became socially complex (more social organization, expansion of trade and political alliances created social and economic pressures to produce more than just food surplus, development led to more sedentary lifestyle. All environments involve risk for hunter-gatherers: drought; long, cold winters; unpredictable floods.
