ANTHR101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Microlith, Fertile Crescent, Broadspectrum

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHR101
• Professor: Megan Highet

Document Summary

Different ways that people g about meeting their need for sustenance: food collectors: foraging, food producers: horticulturalist; pastoralism; intensive agriculture. The environment exerts a restraining rather than determining influence on how people get their food; Mostly based on how people get their food. Food scarcity is rare, requires minimal time investment labour is about 3 hours a day; egalitarian equal, no monopolization of knowledge; informal leadership. Horticulture: growing crops using simple tools and methods with no permanently cultivated fields. Small community; nomadic lifestyle; food scarcity frequent; moderate stratification; informal-formal leadership. Intensive agriculture: involves techniques that enable people to cultivate fields permanently. Large, permanent communities; sedentary lifestyle; food scarcity frequent; considerable social stratification; full time, formal leaders. All of a sudden you have professionals differentially valued classes form. Foraging: no land ownership because it has no inherent value. Intensive agriculture: land is inherently valuable, individual ownership is the norm. Broad spectrum food collection and increasingly sedentary lifestyle.