ANTA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Quinoa, Hohokam, Cassava
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The change from hunting and gathering to agriculture is often called the neolithic revolution, a name coined decades ago by archaeologist v. gordon childe (1951). This idea is to acknowledge the fundamental changes brought about by the beginning of food production. Neolithic revolution: childe"s term for the far-reaching consequences of food production. Neolithic: new stone age; period of farmers. Craft specializations: an economic system in which some individuals do not engage in food production, but also devoting their labour to the production of other goods and services. Archaeologists would still accept his general characterization of the neolithic revolution; we can recognize that sedentism actually preceded farming in certain locations where permanent settlements were sustained solely by gathering and hunting or fishing. Archaeologists also know that neolithic lifeways evolved independently in several places around the world. Diffusion: the idea that widely distributed cultural traits originated in a single center and spread from one group to another through contact or exchange.
