ANT 2410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Optimal Foraging Theory, Copyright Collective, Neolithic Revolution
8 Feb 2017
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Food foraging and collection: collecting vegetation, hunting animals, and fishing. Horticulture: plant cultivations with simple tools and small plots of land, relying solely on human power. Pastoralism: keeping domesticated animals and using their parts as a major food source, subsistence shepherds use every part of the animal (blood, milk, viscera, etc) Intensive agriculture: horticulture using animals or mechanical power and some form of irrigation, using oxen to pull plows or wagons to help with farming. Industrialization agriculture: the production of food through complex machinery, utilizes combines, tractors, and other equipment to harvest crops. This is defined as a food-collection strategy that obtains wild plants and animal resources through gathering, hunting, scavenging, or fishing. Foragers in the world today are hunter-gatherers: usually seen in remote locations in societies with less complex technology, typically, gathering would make up more of the diet than hunting would.
