ANTHR101 Lecture Notes - Neolithic Revolution
14 Mar 2014
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Economic systems, the type of food production systems influence every other institution. Everything is related back to the patterns of subsistence. We are gregarious, so we need enough food for a whole group. Need to know what is edible + how to obtain it + how to process it. How seasonal a climate is also affects food prod. Used to be called hunters/gatherers but some do not hunt, maybe they fish, they do more gathering. Used to think these people were on the brink of starvation. This is not the case, they live in small populations and it takes them relatively little time to find enough food to be full. Since their food is usually seasonal, they are highly. Before neolithic revolution, there were areas with enough food that people didn"t have to be nomadic to be sustained. This is why sedentarism came before argriculture in many cases. Meat is always something that is important.
