ANT201H5 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Rachis, Pengtoushan, Yangshao Culture
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Many independent locations around the globe details and processes in distinct regions, has its own distinct timeline and process of domestication centers of indigenous domestication. Holocene (12,000 bp present: rapid change in sea levels, geography, vegetation, about 10 million hunter-gatherers and rising, using wide range of resources greater efficient intensification specialization (technology and behavior) Why this radical change around the same time: sedentism, specialized technologies, social ranking. Materialist (processualist: childe oasis hypothesis, braidwood nuclear zones, bindford and cohen population pressure, flannery systems theory, rindos neo-darwinism. Other models social: hayden competitive feasting, bender social scale ideational, hodder symbolic structure. Domesticated stress indicators in their bones from living in closed structures. Daxi and hemudu (horticulture) rice: in wet environments , the yield of rice is much greater than being dry, larger grain size, stronger rachis. Papua new guinea (~5,000 bc) bananas, yams, taro: don"t preserve well in different conditions the cereal bias . Millet, rice, sorghum, cattle: larger seeds, denser, tougher rachis.
