ANTH 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Neolithic Revolution, Animal Husbandry, Human Ecology
6 Mar 2015
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Slash-and-burn horticulture was then introduced (creating change in natural environment by removal through cutting and burning of natural vegetative cover). In the middle east, this period dated between. The neolithic age signalled the intro of domesticated plants and animals, ceramics, and polished tone tools (all related to a change in subsistence strategy gtom foraging to horticulture and agriculture. Family is the basic unit of production. Little overlap between male and female tasks. Children often help with herding, driving the animals to water holes, and singing them to sleep at night. 25 million: 17. 3 in africa, 3. 5 in middle east and south asia, more than 2 mil in. In asia, foundation of aztec society was intensive agriculture: corn was principle crop (but also beans, squash, gourds, peppers, tomatoes, unlike old world societies, only few animals were domesticated (dogs and turkeys cotton and tobacco) Both for eating: agricultural success resulted in a growing population and diversification of labor.
