ANT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Terra Preta, Sedentism, Permanent Settlement
6 Nov 2017
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Investment in immovable facilities like homes, food processing equipment, and storage facilities. Accumulation of material good beyond the immediate biological needs of the people. Plants compete with each other, and the composition of plant communities in any. Humans artificially push back the extant succession stage to one that is early in the. Cultivation: intentional preparation of fields; sowing, harvesting, storing seeds. Agriculture: a reliance on cultivated plants, often with changes in social and economic organization. Product of a range of factors: parent material, topography, climate, organisms, time. Horizons of soil: much biological activity, microorganisms enrich it with decomposing matter and nutrients, dark because or organic material, less organic material, results from the weathering of underlying bedrock. Vegetation particular habitat changes with time process known as succession. sequence and that is early in the sequence and that has a very high output ratio. Changing fallow period: giving soil a rest during growing seasons to accumulate lost nutrients.
