GGR329H5 Lecture Notes - Kalahari Desert, Marshall Sahlins, Dickson Mounds
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Farmer power: farmer power, history"s haves and have-nots, to farm or not to farm. 1960s: harvard kalahari project, bunch of native men living in the bushes in. Diamond on agriculture: worst mistake in the history of human race . Dickson mounds, illinois 1150: hg farmers (800 skeletons) High death rate (40% children died < 15) Not agricultural diseases, but zoonoses (infections transmitted to humans by wild animals or their parasites: rabies, tuberculosis, brucellosis, plague, tularemia, leptospirosis, chaga"s disease. Modern population explosion occurred despite most rapid decline in fertility in human history. Perhaps transition to agriculture not improvement, but necessity . Today, most people consume food produced by others. But different people acquired food production at different times in prehistory. Food production was indirectly a prerequisite for development of. Schematic overview of chains of causation leading upto proximate factors from ultimate factors. Most 200 000 wild flowering plants are useless.
