ANT200H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Kalahari Desert, Coevolution, Pastoralism
Document Summary
A question of origins: origins of beipedalism 5-10mya, origins of tool use 2. 5 may, origins of modern humans 200 kya, origins of art 40kya, origins of food production 12 kya, origins of social complexity 6 kya. Food production: why the fuss: greater amounts of food, more reliably, it is reducing risk, and increasing output, it allows population to increase (a consequence, rather than advantage) Storage: delayed-return rather than immediate-return: ex: if you kill an animal, you have to pass the meat out quickly, otherwise it will be ruined. Domestication: a relationship between humans and the plant and animal world, a change int he been pool of a plant or animal resulting from a coevolutionary process, human, plants, or animals develop a dependence on one another. Plant domestication: when we look at the wild, teosinte is a wild precursor of modern corn.
