ANT 2000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sedentism, Dharma Transmission, Epigraphy
Document Summary
Holocene time since the last major glacial epoch or ice age. Feeding lots of people, really manipulating the landscape to create a yield that the modifier wants; diet relies on domesticated plants for at least 80% of its food. Wild strands of vegetation what were meant to be eaten by humans, intentional attending to wild strands of plants and seeds and things. not genetically altering the plant. Intentionally experimenting with the same class of animal or plant to get the result that you want. Still hunting and gathering but may have some gardens around where they live. In order to sustain population there is need to invest time, money and technology into agriculture. Complexity people settle down, more people join in, politics and organization are questions to be asked. diversity. Things that arent shared between the whole group but exclusive to families, immovables in a household. Warefare land becomes important, immovable, there becomes needs to protect it.
