ANTH 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Neolithic, Animal Husbandry, Stone Age
4 Dec 2016
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Adaption: process establishes a moving balance between the needs of a population and the potential of its environment. Horticulture: normally small-scale cultivation of crops using hand tools such as digging sticks or hoes. (used in new guinea) Anthropogenesis: the process whereby ecosystems are influenced or altered by humans. Examples include human impact on the environment through pollution, farming, or contrition. Ecosystem: a system, or a functioning whole, composed of both the physical environment and the organisms living within it. Foraging way of life: people who love and live in the natural environment, in exchange for their affection and trust, nature supplies them with all their needs. They know how to hunt the game of the region and gather the wild fruit that grow in abundance there, though hidden to outsiders. Mobility and technology: foragers are people who do not farm or practice animal husbandry.
