ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Natufian Culture, Neolithic Revolution, Sedentism
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Ant101 lecture 19 culivaion and domesicaion. Characterized by transiion from foraging to dependence on domesicated plants and animals: sedentary people stay in one place accumulaion of garbage, shelters, burials, storage areas. Cultural acivity linked with planings, herding, and processing domesicated species. Domesicaion is biological altering of organism"s genes. Stressor models (environmental determinism: desiccaion or oasis theory (deseriicaion, populaion pressure theory. Convenience models (cultural: sedenism theory, hilly flanks theory suggests that increase of diversity of diet led to curiosity of creaing new foods, social theory. Environmental changes: extreme seasonality, unstable climate. Cultural changes: probably ired the landscape, increase collecion of wild seeds, storage of foods. Southwest asia animal domesicaion (begins in many parts of world) Dog 40,000 20,000 years ago: most likely served as watchdogs, assisted in huning, eaten as a starvaion food, brought to americas from asia, earliest animal domesicates. Sheep & goats 10,000 years ago: hills of northern iraq, zagros, mountains of iran and jordan.
