ARCH 3115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Indus River, Sweet Potato, Fertile Crescent

• School: Virginia Tech
• Department: Architecture
• Course: ARCH 3115
• Professor: Joseph Bedford

Document Summary

Archeological site @ granary at drah - jordan valley (8,000 bce) a. Allowed wheat to dry and avoid mice + insects. 12 best species of grain: sugar cane, wheat, soybean, sugar beet, potato, bananas, rice, barley, sweet potato, etc. ii. iii. Note - australia does not yet have domestication of animals. Dinaledi chamber, rising star cave, south america i. Hominid bone deposit dating as far back as 912,000 bp b. c. d. e. Tigris and euphrates: mesopotamia i. agriculture emerges here first beginning around 8,000 bce f.