ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Rachis, Sedentism, Quinoa

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 1AA3
• Professor: Karen Mc Garry

Document Summary

By 30,000 years ago, they became extinct as a hominin species. Humans then migrated and expanded further throughout the world, and into the new. Neanderthals and early homo sapiens were foragers. Foraging is a subsistence strategy (way of life that focuses upon how food is procured or how you get your food: has huge impact on lifestyle. 99% of human history as foragers (hunter/gatherer: only after 12,000 ya humans made shift from forager lifestyle to agricultural. Humans & neanderthals existed as a hunting & gathering society or foragers. Group of foragers/hunters and gatherers roamed the earth: small groups of up to 75 people, nomadic constantly roaming around; do not live in one location permanently. Opportunistic consumer you follow the availability of foods and food resources; do not grow own food. Forager follow season of foods: no long term, permanent villages or shelters, fairly egalitarian/little conflict as no distinctions in status. Status distinctions create hierarchy based on economics or wealth;