helpful review terms —
Pleistocine megafauna
ethnographic analogy
The three T’s
Paleo-Indians
Clovis
migration theories
Berengia land bridge theory
Chicken and Chips theory
Stone Age Columbus theory
DNA markers/mitochondiral DNA
Neolithic Revolution
food production
sedentarism
horticulture
agriculture
agriculture v. horticulture
Fertile Crescent
Mesoamerica
broad spectrum collecting
zonal variation
Ali Kosh
Catal Huyuk
The Big question –>
How does the human experience change once we can control our food supply?
Culture, tools, population, health, what do we need to do to accommodate the world of producing our own food, plant and animal? How do we keep track of the surpluses? How do relations with our neighbors change?
The Little questions –>but still important
What would make an animal a good candidate for domestication?
How can plants be made more desirable? What are characteristics that may be preferred by humans?
What are some of the edible and non-edible secondary products of agriculture we looked at?
How would these enhance the lives of the early agriculturalists?
Compare agriculture and horticulture — how does the food production vary? how do the cultures associated with them vary?