ANT 3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Dental Caries, Zoonosis, Monocropping
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Subsistence strategy: methods for obtaining/producing food: food foraging societies, hunting, fishing, gathering of wild foods (foraging, food producing societies, domestication of plants cultivation- (horticulture, agriculture, and animals breeding/raising (pastoralism, industrial societies. Industrial technology instead of human labor: steam, water, air, oil, electricity, nuclear energy. Study of ancient people using plants= floral analysis (paleoethnobotany: macro botanical remains, seeds, rinds, phytoliths, palynology (pollen analysis, coprolites, poop, seasonality charts, see when things are available and used. What is domestication: process of establishing human control over the product of reproduction thorough cultural selection (may not be intentional, natural selection vs. Cultural selection: wild plants and animals have a wide range of naturally occurring variation, humans select for more edible parts, and parts that are easier to harvest, seedbed coaction and penning, over time, new species are created. Plants: morphological changes (stems/seeds, more edible parts (bigger seeds/thicker fruit, changes in surrounding environment (weeds)
