Five Major Food Gathering Strategies

1. Five Major Food Gathering Strategies • hunting & gathering 2. . • . • agriculture • .

2. For most of human history, homo sapiens have used the subsistence strategy of

3. Neolithic RevolutionThe Rise of Food Production • ; for this reason, some anthropologists prefer to call it the Neolithic Transition Differencebetween a revolution and a transition?

4. Neolithic RevolutionThe Rise of Food Production • transition from food collection to food production; for this reason, some anthropologists prefer to call it the Neolithic Transition • began

6. Neolithic RevolutionThe Rise of Food Production • transition from food collection to food production; for this reason, some anthropologists prefer to call it the Neolithic Transition • began 10,000 years ago in China and the Middle East • humans began : growing their own crops and keeping herds of animals • humans were able to produce food rather than collect what nature produced

8. Changes Resulting From Food Production WHY? • increased • populations became more • created a greater division of labor – not everyone had the same job C I V I L I Z A T I O N

10. Changes Resulting From Food Production • increased population • populations became more sedentary – created settlements • created a greater division of labor – not everyone had the same job specialization • reduced the life expectancy from 26 to 19 years

11. Changes Resulting From Food Production • increased population • populations became more sedentary – created settlements • created a greater division of labor – not everyone had the same job specialization • decline in overall health reduced the lifeexpectancy from 26 to 19 years

12. Food Production Declining Health • while (some) hunter-gatherers had a more balanced diet  variety of plants and animal proteins • agriculturalists ran the if the crops failed– greater risk of widespread famine

13. Food Production Declining Health •  + sedentary life =  •  •  + population density = 