ANTH 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Neolithic, Extensive-Form Game, Stone Age
4 Mar 2016
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Agriculture: practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products. Societies tend to have a highly developed political systems that can organize human labor and technology can be tied to fixed parcels of land and irrigation infrastructure. Anthropogenesis: the process whereby ecosystems are influenced or altered by humans. Examples include human impact on the environment through pollution, farming, or construction. (p. 99) Carrying capacity: the number of people the available resources can support at a given technological level. (p. 104) Density of social relations: roughly the number and intensity of interactions among the members of a camp or other residential unit. (p. 104) Ecosystem: a system, or a functioning whole, composed of both the physical environment and the organisms living within it. (p. 99)
