10- Chapter 11: Lethal Gift of Livestock A stable source of food like livestock can have a lot of negative consequences. Although food production spread at unequal rates‚ many people gained access to it right away. Naturally‚ it seemed like a good thing because the population size was increasing while the supply of food was slowly getting lower. This allowed people to gain access to a variety of foods from plant and animal domestication. However‚ what those people didn’t know was that human diseases
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migrating animals which eventually led them into North America. C. First Americans probably arrived 15‚000 years ago and came from Northeast Asia D. First settlers were small groups of hunter/gatherers. II. The first Americans were thought to be the Clovis. A. Paul Martins belief that Clovis were big game hunters (based on sites that found spear tips alongside mammal bones) were disproved with further evidence. B. Clovis
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either have been a hunter or a gather whom are nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting‚ fishing‚ harvesting wild food‚ and solely relying on the land for their everyday means of survival. Many of the hunters would spend weeks following herds of livestock to hunt and bring back to the tribe while gatherers would pick wild berries‚ fruits‚ and vegetables to eat while they waited for the hunters or didn’t have any meat to eat. Unfortunately‚ even though the hunters and gatherers were merely trying
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anti-technology‚ or those who dislike or have a difficult time understanding and using modern science and technology. The word Luddite is a historical political movement term used to describe people who are opposed to technological innovations. Hunter-gatherer - domesticating plants and animals: life got easier More food for less work
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The only thing that was important to these hunter gatherers was obtaining food through any means necessary. Mainly done through hunting animals and foraging for edible plants. This would be repeated daily so that they could obtain food to survive. Since they were hunter gatherers there wasn’t a reliable way of obtaining their food so they wouldn’t have a surplus. Instead of being able to rely on having a surplus
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Samantha Rummans MWF 9:40-10:35 WRI 1100 K / Youngdale Due: April 26‚ 2013 Last Updated: April 22‚ 2013 Eat the Caveman Way! It is common knowledge that incorporating grains into one’s meals is a great way to eat a balanced and healthy diet. In fact‚ most cultures around the world typically eat diets that include carbohydrates such as grains as a base. Grains‚ therefore‚ are typically the main source of calories in most cultures worldwide. Over time‚ experts have noticed this
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Tigris and Euphrates D. Black and Caspian 3. Which of the Sumerian inventions helped them keep the river waters from damaging their crops? A. Rivers B. Basins C. Irrigation D. Ditches 4. Most people from Sumer were A. Farmers B. Fishers C. Hunters and Gatherers D. Politicians 5. Sargon was the ruler of which group of people? A. The Sumerians B. The Hittites C. The Assyrians D. The Akkadians 6. Sargon was the first ruler to A. Attack Sumer B. Have a permanent army C. Collect taxes D. Write a system
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farmer‚ many hours of the day was needed to make sure that the soil was rich with nutrients‚ turned correctly‚ and supplied with enough water so that the seeds would grow. The diets of agriculturalist was not necessarily as well rounded as a hunter-gatherers‚ pastoralist or industrialist. The article Agriculture and Civilization also says that “agriculture‚ while it can be highly productive‚ takes advantage of only a few thousand of the
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Incas in Peru and the Aztecs in central Mexico‚ each containing some 25-30 million people‚ Despite the fact that both these populations far exceeded the size and density needed to sustain the acute infectious diseases. So descendants of the hunter-gatherers who crossed from Siberia were familiar with the ancient persistent microbes we all inherited from our ape-like ancestors. The reason for the absence of crowd disease microbes in the Americas is probably quite straightforward; in the Old World
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Cultural Anthropology Professor Kristin Akerele January 13‚ 2011 The Mbuti are pygmy hunter-gatherers‚ and are one of the oldest indigenous people of the Congo region of Africa. The Mbuti are composed of bands which are relatively small in size‚ ranging from 15 to 60 people. The Mbuti population totals about 30‚000 to 40‚000 people. They live in bands or tribes of 15-60 people. The hunter-gatherer Mbuti Pygmies are divided into several sub-groups‚ each with their own area‚ language and hunting
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