ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 42: Broadspectrum, Ester Boserup, Feminist Archaeology
Document Summary
Food productions are flexible and respond to population densities by intensifying. When territory is limited, food shortages result and new food storage strategies appear. Domestication was another form of storage (ex. meat on the hoof) Emergence of farming on extension of past strategies. Broad-spectrum foraging: hunter-gatherers seek to maintain stability and resource flexibility (brian hayden) Late pleistocene holocene shift from megafauna to broad spectrum resources. Diversification means of risk reduction/strategy to increase resource stability. Shift from k-selected species (long-lived, log maturation periods with few offspring/reproductive cycle) to r-selected species (rapid reproduction, large numbers of offspring) both in terms of plants (annuals) and animals (ex. Richerson, boyd, bettinger, mccorriston, hole, moore, and hillman. Weather more seasonal = hotter summers, cooler winters. Exploitation of seasonal grains but seeing decreasing availability. Planting crops strategy to get through food shortages. Agricultural intensification driven by socio-political competition (barbara. Competition between ambitious individuals within societies requires surplus resources.
