SOC 2080 Lecture : Second Lecture and Textbook
16 Jan 2012
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Food and the agro-industrial complex in canada (prologue to book) Food & diet in paleolithic and neolithic times. Paleolithic (up to last ice age, lower paleolithic was earliest humankind and emergence of hand-ax industries; middle had neanderthal humans; upper had only modern homosapiens) Paleolithic diets (intense debate about what the diets were like; they vary according to environment; wide variety of plant and animal protein)-diets humans evolved to thrive on (no dairy, no grains at the time) Details about health and what they are able to physically accomplish. Much longer if we consider early human species (2 million years+) Not a long time span since we have domesticated plants and animals. Farm animals first domesticated, and agriculture was introduced. Began in near east in 8th millennium and spread to europe by 4th millennium. Change in content of diets (few grains and some animals domesticated)
