SETTLING DOWN, BUILDING CITIES, & ESTABLISHING STATES
Feb 09, 2016
SETTLING DOWN, BUILDING CITIES, & ESTABLISHING
STATES
DOMESTICATION: WHAT IS IT?
Human _______________________of another species With the result that _________________________
Occurred independently in ____________of the globe between ________________________
DOMESTICATION: WHAT IS IT?
Separating sedentism from domestication and agriculture
What is sedentism? _______________________________________ Why is this separate from domestication & agriculture?
PLANT CULTIVATION & AGRICULTURE
Agriculture:
Environments suitable for domesticated species
Agroecology = _____________________which becomes the only environment within which ______________________
ANIMAL DOMESTICATION IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD
1. Presence of animal species ___________________
2. __________________between wild and domesticated populations Example: ______________
Larger in ________ relative_______________
ANIMAL DOMESTICATION IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD
3. Animal population ______________ Gazelle bones versus sheep & goat bones
4. _______________ of fossilized remains
ANIMAL DOMESTICATION IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD
1st animal: ______________ Evidence from Magdalenian cave site ___________________-- as old as 16,000yrs (p187)
Very confident date of domestication: _________ North America & SW Asia
ANIMAL DOMESTICATION IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD
What followed?Sheep Domestication ______________ago SW Asia
Goat Herding ______________SW Asia
Occurred separately -- Why?
______________________________________
DOMESTICATION IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD
______________to domestication
___________________is not present Not a ______________ for the emergence of __________
One theory we will consider: _____________________
Combined local effect of climate, environment, population, technology, social organization, and/or diet
NATUFIANS
Foragers in ________ Wild cereals, nuts, & wild game
___________ _______________ sedentism
2 dozen villages (~40-150ppl) 1. 2.