ANTHR101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Broadspectrum, Microlith, Pastoralism
3 Mar 2016
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Subsistence strategies: the way that people go about meeting their need for sustenance has implication for the social, political, and economic organization of a society. The environment exerts a restraining rather than a determining influence on how people get their food. A great deal about the culture of a group can be predicted based on how people get their food. The relationship between the environment, subsistence strategies, and. Much larger sedentary population very long period of occupation. Ecofacts: large surplus of grains and lentils, domesticated cattle and sheep. Female skeletons displayed evidence of habitual activity related to food processing. Approximately 12,000 years ago, a shift occurred from food collection to food production. Domestication (human intervention in the natural reproductive lifecycle of plants or animals for human benefit) led to sedentary lifestyle, the emergence of social stratification and the eventual rise of the state. Local group is autonomous with ties to other groups through kinship.
