[HIST 1215] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (36 pages long)
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Transition from foraging to farming known as neolithic revolution. Under static climatic conditions, groups are not forced to take advantage of the productive potential of their respective habitats, and remain indefinitely in a hunter gatherer regime. Extreme environmental stress erode any accumulated human capital useful for agriculture, delaying its adoption. Neolithic sites endowed with intermediated levels of climatic volatility transited earlier into agriculture, conditional on local micro geographic characters. Earliest recorded evidence of domestication comes from abu hureyra, a late natuffian site on the euphrates in syria. Smith examined the overkill hypothesis whereby the pleistocene extinction of large mammals, as a consequence of excessive hunting, led to the rise of agriculture. Despite the varied contributions of the economics literature in explaining the neolithic. Revolution, population pressure is the ultimate driving force behind the transition to agriculture. Near the skeletons, a pendant or amulet of ivory, oval, flat and pierced with two holes was found.
