[ANT201H5] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 43 pages long Study Guide!
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Study guide topic 5: origins of resource production. Homo sapiens around for a long time before resource production. Domestication of species (plants and animals) e. g. teosinte > maize. Primary (indigenous) origins), occurred independently, hearts or centers (around the same time: southwest asia, sub sahara africa, south china earliest domesticated species: 12 kya, dependence: 8 kya, 5 kya beginning of social stratification: north china, papua new guinea, mesoamerica, south america, north america. Difference between domestication and dependence; in domestication stage still hunter gathers did(cid:374)"t use product all the time; dependence became very important to society. Doing agriculture is more work than hunter gatherer society. Resource production: systematic interference with the resource supply. Increase in resource supply with accompanying increase energy expenditure. Two interactive processes: changes in plants and animals. Cultivation: direct interference by humans in plants life cycle, at any scale (focus on annual plants not perennials) Domestication: the genetic impact on plants or animals, change in genotype(dna) or phenotype (physical)
