ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Zoonosis, Phytic Acid, Dental Caries
26 Mar 2014
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About 10,000 years ago as people shifted to hunters and gatherers to agriculture, changes in disease patterns, coincides with production of food. Changes on human bone that suggests that agriculture was associated with unhealthy lifestyle. Hunting and gathering was main source of subsistence for 99% of human history. Paleolithic diet; vegetables, fruits, meats, fish, nuts, starches, etc. (diverse) People started to rely on one particular crop. With transition to agriculture sedentary lifestyle, gradual growth of cities and villages, less exercise. More people living in a community fuels proliferation of diseases. Domestication of animals (dogs, cattle, sheep, pigs); closer contact with animals on day-to-day basis. Agriculture leads to zoonosis; infectious diseases acquired from animals; influenza, tuberculosis, plague. As people are living together there are problems of sanitation; garbage and human waste. Increased population density herd diseases (transmitted from person to person) Lesions show up on bone in agricultural societies, don"t see or no prevalence of it on hunters and gatherers.
