Early Humans

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Early Humans

• The Neolithic Revolution

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Changes

• Agriculture Domestication Settlements
  ------------gt Population growth
• Population growth REQUIRES systems of support!
• So who does what?

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Social Organization

• What if society was divided by Left-handedness
  and Right-handedness?
• Left Handers farmbecause they are better at it
• Right Handers take care of the homebecause they
  are better at it.
• Makes sense, right? )

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Neolithic society and gender

• Men did __________________
• Women did ________________
• Why were women in charge of taking care of the
  children?
• No baby formula!

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Jobs in about 9500 BC
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Jobs in 2009 AD
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So they settled down and grew stuff.
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Grains of the world

• Quinoafrom the Andes of South America
• Yellow corngiant domestic grasses of the
  southwest
• BuckwheatFrom central Asia
• Speltone of the first grains to be grown (5000
  BC)

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Grains they grew (cont)

• Ricesecond largest crop, 3500 BC, in Asia
• Milletcultivated in Central Africa and Asia
  since 5500 BC.
• Flax
• Barleycultivated for 8000 years from Middle East
  and Africa

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• Ryehearty grain of northeastern Europe
• Amaranthholy grain of the Aztecs, Mayan, Inca
  people
• Oatsone of the newest, 2000 years, they thought
  it was a weed!