ANTH 2050 Chapter : Perspectives On Food Production
Document Summary
Food production = domestication of plants and animals. 11,000 bp); as a species we spent 90% of our history as hunter-gatherers. Food production allows more complex forms of society. Food production as a necessary condition for the development of social. With the exception of select cases of complex hunter-gatherers, social complexity occurs in context of agriculture. Agriculture + herding = process that artificially increases plant food yields. Domestication = genetic modification of wild forms more useful to humans. Emergence of food production in association with neolithic. Human-induced morphological/biological change in plants and animals that renders the species dependent on humans for reproduction and survival . Two implications: new type of stone technology: grinding and polishing techniques added to flaking, food production: domestication of plants and animals. More effort into subsistence economy with the objective of increasing production. Many societies prefer to forage than to form.
