ANTHROPOLOGY
22 OCTOBER 2007
Subsistence
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The ways that a culture or group gets their food (the economics and production)
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Processual term
Foodways
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The ways that cultures/groups get, use, prepare and think about food.
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Post Processual term
Evidence
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Lots
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Animal Bones and plant remains
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Pottery (food prep, storage, consumption)
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Lithics – food procurement or preparation
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On historic sties…glassware, irons, cans, etc. as well as the above
Main Forms of Subsistence Economies
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Hunter Gatherers – foragers.
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Get their food as it occurs in the environment.
Do not plant things
intentionally, nurturing them and stuff.
At some point the hunters and
gatherers know their land very well, they know their animals what animals
the prey like and when the animals are good to kill.
I.E. The California
Indians knew the deer like fresh grass shoots so they would do burnings
and the deer would come in high densities
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Pastoralists
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Agriculturists
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Hates waiting for the acorns to drop every year.
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- Spring '08
- Norena
- hunter gatherers, Hunting, Inuit, Hunter–gatherer
