ANTH 2820 Lecture 6: Lec. 6

• School: University of Virginia
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 2820
• Professor: Wattenmaker Pati

Document Summary

Consequences of staying still and farming/domesticating animals = exhausting resources and creating dead zones. Options: change use of resources (favor certain species, intensify food sources (domesticate plant and animals) Lower densities, anyway to take what we have and make it better i. e. wild wheat liked it but didn"t serve us enough, take more seeds and harvest them, weed around it, etc. Could lead to the domestication of plants and farming: become mobile (thought it would work, but it didn"t, lower population. Certainly did not do that because population continued to climb. Values shifted more children, bigger communities, and staying in one place. Dead zones left them with a choice: leave the place you"re in or go more mobile: ended up become mobile hunting and gathering. Shows that it is not a steady trajectory; i. e. once you become sedentary, you don"t necessarily have to stay that way. Pre-pottery neolithic period [ppn: beginning start of farming communities.