ANT 100 Lecture 5: ANT100 Lecture 5 (After Reading Week & Midterm)

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT 100
• Professor: Dana Osborne

Document Summary

Eurasia as a hotspot: we do not need to rank eurasians as a cultural complex or advanced compared to any group, expand and growth of agriculture over the course of the early neolithic evolution. Cradle of civilization: aka: fertile crescent, ancient mesopotamia (tigris and euphrates rivers) Moisture and critical deposition of nutrients: development of complex system of irrigation, intensive agriculture. Availability of lots of plants and distribution allowed the use of land: development during the neolithic period, 12,000-10,000 bce, neolithic revolution, ancient cereals, such as wheat. A(cid:272)tually, less of a (cid:862)(cid:272)radle(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:373)ore of a (cid:862)(cid:374)ursery(cid:863) (midterm: scholars today maintain that there were 6 areas around the world that developed aspects of civilization as we recognize it today: The world"s taples: cereals: wheat, the (cid:449)orld"s food supply depe(cid:374)ds o(cid:374) a(cid:271)out (cid:1005)5(cid:1004) pla(cid:374)t spe(cid:272)ies. Of those (cid:1005)5(cid:1004), just (cid:1005)(cid:1006) pro(cid:448)ide three-quarters of the (cid:449)orld"s food.