ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Digging Stick, Kfc, Animal Husbandry
5 Dec 2013
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It is an element of culture that is interconnected with everything else. Kingship and decent is important in hunting, pastoral societies. Way different societies get the food that people need to survive off of. We categorize patterns of subsistence into two broad types: 1. Producers past include 3 types of subsistence: 1) pastoralism 2) Horticulture 3) agriculture (intensive agriculture: if you are an inuit in the arctic, it makes no sense to grow crops, its very hard to grow anything in the arctic there are very different ways of simply. Being : up until 12,000 years ago, we were all hunters. 99% of our existence as a species we were hunters. Roughly 90% of all of the people who have ever existed, were gatherers and hunters. Domestication occurred, consequently, there are very few hunting societies left: the one"s that are left, are found in marginal (in terms of agriculture) environments.
