SOC 2080 Lecture : SOC2080 Week 1 Jan 12 Lecture Notes
11 Feb 2012
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Food and diet in palaeolithic and neolithic times. Appearance of artefacts from end of last ice age (8500 yrs ago) Divided into lower and middle, era of neanderthal and upper palaeolithic (only homosapiens existed) Debate about, vary according to enviro, wide variety of plants and animal proteins, diet evolved to thrive on: didn t exist: dairy, grains etc. Neolithic/stone age: farm animals first domesticated, agri introduces, began in near east by 8th millennium bc and spread to n. europe by the 4th millennium bc. Early agrarian dietary regimes: change in content of diets, few grains and some animal species domesticated, wheat, oats, barley, rice (old world), maize (new world, domestication of cattle, horse, pig, some fowl (old world) Jared diamond thesis on role of location of domestication in nearly economic devt.
