ANTH 102 Chapter 13: Chapter 13
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Research at guil naquitz cave, valley of oaxaca, mexico. A mountainous region paralleling the eastern shore of the mediterranean, including parts of the countries of turkey, syria, lebanon, and israel. Fertile crescent: lewis binford: (lb like pounds. Population pressure hypothesis - lewis binford"s theory regarded population increase in. He argued that farming was backbreaking, time consuming, and labor intensive. Conversely, hunter gathers spent only a few hours per day gathering food and had lots of downtime afterwards. Therefore, he proposed that sw asian cultures resorted to farming as a last resort and did not see it as a fortuitous discovery. Spreads rapidly to central and south america and north america. Enters great plains and eastern woodlands of north america by 200 bc-ad 200: maize (corn, maize, beans, squash. Complementarity mesoamerican domesticates types of societies that first used them. Maize is high in calories but lacks amino acids, lysine and tryptophan. Beans are rich in protein and provide missing amino acids.
