ANT200H5 Lecture Notes - Scapula, Pastoralism, Animal Husbandry
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{topic 4: origins of resource production} // based on chapter 5. **origins of food production fod textiles tobacco & alcohol. ** page 160 to 166 about earliest evidence in chapter 6 of the book. Answer: during this time the domestication of species was very prevalent. Going from teosinte to maize which is also known as corn . Answer: primary (indigenous) origins: secondary origins (everywhere but the arctic) Resource extraction involves taking resources from the environment with minimum impact. There were about 10 million hunter/gatherer/fishers. resource extraction is a band level type of social organization: egalitarian type society low population density: hunter/gatherer/fisher this type of extraction involved the usage of a mobile type subsistence strategy: using camps. {ju/"hoansi: were hunter and gatherers, women and men gathered // a division of labour was establish where women focused on plants and men on hunting they were structured, only were known to work about 20 hours per week.