1. Chapter 6 Getting Food What did you have for breakfast? How did it get here?

2. 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.

3. Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Foraging General Features of Foragers  Most live in small communities  Follow a nomadic lifestyle  No individual land right  Division of labor based on age and gender

4. Foraging  Australian Aborigines  Natural resources  Modern amenities  Government checks  The Inuit (Eskimo)  Natural resources  Jobs  Weekend fishing

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Food Production Three types of food production systems:  Horticulture  Intensive Agriculture  Pastoralism

8. 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.

9. 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?

10. 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?

11. Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Table 6-1 (p. 98) Variation in Food-Getting and Associated Features

12. 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 growth  The emergence of hotter, drier summers and colder winters

13. Market Foragers?