Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
Chapter 6Getting Food
What did you have for breakfast?
How did it get here?
Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
Foraging
Food collection is generally defined as a food-getting strategy that obtains wild
plant and animal resources through gathering, hunting,
scavenging, or fishing.
Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
Foraging
General Features of Foragers
Most live in small communitiesFollow a nomadic lifestyleNo individual land right
Division of labor based on age and gender
Foraging
Australian Aborigines Natural resources Modern amenities Government checks
The Inuit (Eskimo) Natural resources Jobs Weekend fishing
Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
Foraging
Complex Foragers
Societies that depend heavily on fishing are more likely to have bigger and more permanent communities and more social
inequality than foraging societies elsewhere who mostly depend on
game and plants.
Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
Food Production
Beginning about 10,000 years ago, certain peoples in diverse geographic locations made the revolutionary changeover to
food production.
Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
Food Production
Three types of food production systems:
HorticultureIntensive Agriculture
Pastoralism
Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
Food Production
Horticulture is the growing of crops of all kinds with
relatively simple tools and methods.
Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
Food Production
Pastoralism is a subsistence technology involving
principally the raising of large herds of animals.
How can you get all the protein and nutrients from raising animals?
Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
Food Production
Intensive Agriculture involves techniques that enable people to cultivate fields permanently.
What was needed for this change to occur?
Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
Table 6-1 (p. 98)Variation in Food-Getting and Associated Features
Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
The Origin of Food Production
Certain conditions must have pushed people to switch from collecting to producing food.
Population growth in regions of bountiful wild resources
Global population growthThe emergence of hotter, drier
summers and colder winters
Market Foragers?
