ANTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Fertile Crescent, Neolithic Revolution, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Environments change in response to warming of climate: sea levels rise, forests spread, new species of animals and plants appear. Larger game hunting began to decline as animals became extinct: agriculture. Domestication: process of converting wild animals or wild animals into forms that humans can care for and cultivate: 10 kya, wild grains, dogs, sheep, goats, cattle. Leads to food surplus: allows for specialization in jobs, hierarchy develops, neolithic revolution. Also occurs in other parts of the world around the same time, but with no contact: plants and animals are different, techniques the same, hypotheses: Natural habitat: earliest domesticates should appear where their wild ancestors lived. Oasis: plants, animals, and humans clustered around water, and it occurred as a result. Population pressure: increasing populations required more food which meant techniques of gathering food needed to change. Social: transition to farming, food storage, and surplus, can not be understood by environment and population, but social class forced this to happen.
