HIS109Y1 Lecture 12: 2.1
January 9th, 2017
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" Defining domestication
! Food production
" Domestication, sedentism, and social
organization
" Explanations for domestication
" Archaeological evidence
" Major/primary centres of domestication
Lecture Outline
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" Epipalaeolithic/Neolithic Middle East
" Spread of agriculture into Europe
Lecture outline continued
Document Summary
One of the most significant events in world (pre)history. No state level society has existed without domesticated plants and animals. A process between people and plants (or animals) Domestication: relationship between humans and plants and animals. Disease: chronic iron- deficiency, increase in tooth disease, enamel hypoplasia, decrease in stature, spread of disease facilitated by sedentism, living with animals, harris lines. Wild grain, fruit, and fish processing and storage. Dramatic changes in settlement, subsistence and technology. Dna evidence suggests migration of people from middle east. Sch neck-kilianst dten is one of a number of mass grave sites dating to the later lbk in central europe. Many scholars argue that there was a crisis at the end of the lbk. Please read the attached article and describe in your own words what took place at. Many h-g shares traits with incipient farmers. Increasing sedentism, food storage, wild grains and gazelles. Changes, but also continuity in technology, settlement, ritual.
