ANT210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Sympathetic Magic, Crystal Skull, Cave Painting
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But, it"s really worth considering: combination of some of these reasons. Issues: upper paleolithic cave art in france, the origins of domesticated rice. Origins of agriculture: biggest mystery: how did they switch to agriculture, that part of human existence represents only 6% of lifespan as farmers, humans were doing quite fine as hunter-gatherers. Jared diamond wrote an interesting paper, agriculture was worst mistake of human race: brings health, environmental issues so many negative things, why turn to something with bad impacts, post-pleistocene. And : not diametrically opposed, there"s a gradation there are people who managed plants and animals. China and rice agriculture: south of shanghai hung jo bay. Rich environment: this region is incredibly rich, people turning to agriculture because don"t have a lot of resources, no rich in resources. Where are the sites: 18k bp a water region appears to have been dry land transformation of landscape phenomenal.
