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- From: gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
- Newsgroups: sci.anthropology
- Subject: [ARCH] Re: Which Came First, Agriculture or Pastorial
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- Message-ID: <725036978snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au>
- References: <1992Dec18.161359.11906@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 15:09:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.161359.11906@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> rspear@sookit.jpl.nasa.gov writes:
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- > your last paragraph can also apply to the process of domestication.
- > here's a really speculative approach...the introduction of
- > agriculture leads to sedentary lifestyles around crop fields, fields
- > attract herds and the process of culling for desirable features
- > begins. likely? who knows?
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- Certainly Aboriginal women left grinding stones near the grain fields
- rather than carrying them around, returning to the site in season year
- by year. They also left food cakes and shelters close by so that people
- travelling through the area during the off season could rest there and
- have something to eat.
-
- But I do not think domestication respectively of plants and animals is
- related in any direct way; animals certainly are not sedentary at all,
- but themselves travelled about to visit certain areas on a regular
- basis to exploit the plants growing there.
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- My own thoughts on human settlement are rather more concerned with
- increasing population and/or invasion (also by other animals), as
- people stayed in the one place increasingly frequently in order both
- to protect resources and to protect their privileged access to them.
- Not a lot different from the way people behave today, if any of you
- have ever watched a gang of teenagers regularly at the same street
- corner and their behaviour toward other gangs . . .
-
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