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GATHERING VEGETABLES CAN LEAD TO
ACCIDENTAL PLANT-TENDING
THE SELECTING OF WHAT CAN ALSO CHANGE THINGS
FOODS WITH BETTER TRAITS
CULTIVATION SUGGESTS
PPL DISRUPTING THE LIFE CYCLE OF A PLANT FOR MORE GAIN
2 FORMS OF CULTIVATION:
WEEDING AND PRUNING
USUALLY DUE TO THIS
A HIGHER YIELD IS THE RESULT
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO
TELL THOUGH FROM THE REMAINS WE HAVE
EVEN POKING THE SOIL WITH A STICK
CAN AERATE IT
TRANSPLANTING IS MUCH MORE
DELIBERATE
A TRANSPLANTED PLANT WILL REQUIRE
TENDING FOR THE REST OF ITS CYCLE
THIS MAY ALSO LEAD TO THE SAME KIND OF
PICKING-AND-CHOOSING
HISTORIC NATIVE AMERICANS OFTEN TRANSPLANTED 2
CEREMONIAL OR MEDICINAL PLANTS
SOWING SEEDS CAN BE SEEN AS
A FORM OF TRANSPLANTING
EARLY CULTIVATION WAS PROBABLY AIMED AT PRODUCING
SEASONAL SUPPLEMENTS TO BROAD-BASED VEGGIE DIETS
THEY WOULD SIMPLY PROVIDE A BETTER ... FOR FOOD
GUARANTEE
THE FINAL STAGE IN THE PROCESS OF FOOD PRODUCTION?
PLANT DOMESTICATION
AT THIS POINT, PLANTS ARE GROWN BASED ON
SELECTION OF USEFUL TRAITS
THIS KIND OF PLANT CAN'T
SURVIVE WITHOUT HUMAN HELP
"FIELD AGRICULTURE" IS BASED ON THE IDEA OF
LAND WHERE ONLY A FEW SPECIES ARE GROWN IN CAREFUL COMBINATION
ONE OF THE MAIN QUESTIONS ABOUT AGRICULTURE?
WHY DID PEOPLE CHANGE TO IT?
SOMETIMES, WHEN FOOD WAS SCARCE OR UNPREDICTABLE, IT COULD HAVE
BEEN A LITTLE EASIER
BEFORE 5000 BC WHICH 3?
CORN, SQUASH, AND BEANS
WHERE?
MESOAMERICA
THEY DIDN'T APPEAR IN NA FOR
CENTURIES
RICHARD FORD HAS GROUPED THESE MAIN 3 INTO (T-U-S-A-C)
THE UPPER SONORAN AGRICULTURAL COMPLEX
MAIZE FARMING REQUIRES A LOT OF
SEDENTARY LIVING
OCCASIONALLY, THOUGH, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN
CONTACT WITH NOMADIC HG PPL
THE OPPORTUNITY FOR ADOPTING THE CROPS WAS PROBABLY
PRESENT LONG BEFORE ANYONE THOUGHT IT WAS WORTH DOING
THE MAIN PRO
PREDICTABILITY
A PERIOD OF UNCERTAIN EXTRA RAINFALL MADE HG
HIGH-RISK
DURING FOOD SHORTAGE, WHAT WOULD ALSO BE TOUGH
FIGHTING OVER TERRITORY
ANOTHER POSSIBILITY OCCURS AT BISON-HUNTING AREAS: GROWING THINGS DUE TO
THE NEED FOR SUPPLEMENTAL PLANTS
INITIALLY, FORAGERS PROBABLY ACCEPT CROPS TO
BECOME BETTER FORAGERS
MAYBE CROPS WERE JUST FOR
SEASONAL SHORTAGES
THE ORIGINS OF HORTICULTURE SEEM TO BE DIRECTLY RELATED TO AN IMBALANCE BTWN 2
POPULATION AND AVAILABLE RESOURCES
FARMING MAY HAVE INCREASED THE DIVISION OF
LABOUR
IN WHICH SOCIETY
ARCHAIC
TEOSINTE IS THE WILD GRASS
THAT CORN EVOLVED FROM
TEHUACAN MEXICO IS WHERE RICHARD MACNEISH
TRACED THE EMERGENCE OF CORN TO
HE DISCOVERED THE CHANGES IN CORN BY EXCAVATING ...AMONG OTHER SITES
COXCATLAN CAVE
CORN IS ONLY AN EFFECTIVE STAPLE
WHEN GROWN ALONG OTHER THINGS
LIKE BEANS OR SQUASH THAT PROVIDE THE NECESSARY
PROTEIN
CHAPALOTE IS THE FIRST
CORN IN THE SW
SOME EARLY (1750-1650BC) CORN EVIDENCE WAS FOUND IN THE SW AT
THREE FIR SHELTER
NEAR
FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA
ALTHOUGH IT IS UNCERTAIN IF THIS WAS THE EARLIEST OR NOT, IT IS CERTAIN THAT ...WAS PRESENT FOR THE INTRODUCTION TO CORN
HIGHER RAINFALL
THE HYBRID MAIZE THAT FOLLOWED CAN BE FOUND AT SUCH WELL-KNOWN SITES AS
BAT CAVE
THE KEY DEV'T CORN IN THE SW
MAIZ DE OCHO
BY ABOUT AD 600
MAIZE DEPENDENCY WAS COMPLETE
THE SANTA CRUZ BEND SITE BENEFITTED FROM
FLOODPLAIN MAIZE AGRICULTURE
MAIZE DATING TO ABOUT 1900BC HAS BEEN FOUND AT ... NEAR FENCE LAKE SOUTH OF ZUNI
THE OLD CORN SITE
A RACHIS IS
THE HINGE THAT HOLDS THE KERNEL TO THE STALK
MAIZ DE OCHO IS ALSO KNOWN AS
NEW ENGLAND FLINT CORN
THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR WITH CORN IS
WATER
THE PPL BECAME EXPERTS AT CHOOSING
SOIL
THE FARMERS FAVORED 2
FLOODPLAINS AND ARROYOS
THE WIDE DISPERSAL OF GARDENS FROM ONE ANOTHER WAS FOR
RISK MANAGEMENT
BY 500BC, WHAT PROBABLY APPEARED IN THE SW?
COMMON BEANS
BEANS AND CORN
COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER
THE LYSINE IN BEANS HELPS TO
DIGEST THE CORN
THEY RETURN WHAT TO THE GROUND
THE NITROGEN THAT THE CORN TAKES
THEREFORE SOIL
REMAINED FERTILE LONGER
THE MAIZE IN THE SW WAS ...-RESISTANT
DROUGHT
BY 200BC, SW GRPS HAD BECOME
LESS MOBILE
BUT IT WASN'T UNTIL AD600-800 THAT WHAT APPEARED IN ANY NUMBERS
PERMANENT VILLAGES
EVERYONE NOW RELIED MORE ON EFFICIENT
STORAGE
HOUSES AND SETTLEMENTS
BECAME LARGER AND MORE PERMANENT
IN SOME PARTS OF NA LIKE THE MIDWESTERN RIVER BOTTOMS, SEDENTARY SETTLEMENTS APPEAR TO HAVE DEV'D
LONG BEFORE AGRICULTURE
IN THE SW, AGRICULTURE WAS
NECESSARY FOR A SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE
SIZES OF SEDENTARY SETTLEMENTS
VARIED A LOT
BASED ON OPPORTUNITIES IN THE 2
ENVIRONMENT AND FOR FARMING
THE N SW EARLY VILLAGES WERE SOMETIMES STILL GROUPED UNDER THE LOOSE TERM
BASKETMAKER
IMPROVEMENTS WERE MADE IN
GRINDING IMPLEMENTS
IN ABOUT AD200, WHAT APPEARS IN THE SW?
POTTERY
BOILING STORED MAIZE AND BEANS MAXIMIZED THEIR
NUTRITIONAL VALUE
PITHOUSES WERE GOOD BECAUSE THEY ... ESPECIALLY IN THE WINTER
RETAINED HEAT
PITHOUSES SHAPE
OFTEN ROUND
THE ENTRANCES
ROOF HATCHES ACCESSED WITH A LADDER
RECTANGULAR HOUSES BUILT IN PITS, THE ROOF AND WALLS BEING FORMED OF POLES, REEDS, GRASS, AND MUD WITH SMALL HEARTHS JUST INSIDE THE ENTRANCES:
LOWER SONORAN DESERT HOUSES
IN ALL BUT THE SMALLEST HOHOKAM VILLAGE, AT LEAST ONE STRUCTURE SEEMS TO BE
SET ASIDE FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES, LIKE AS A PIT HOUSE
SHABIK'ESCHEE VILLAGE IN CHACO CANYON, NM, HAD ONE WEIRD PIT HOUSE WITH A BENCH ALONG THE INTERIOR THAT WAS BELIEVED TO BE A
CEREMONIAL BUILDING
BY AD 700-900, KIVA-LIKE STRUCTURES WERE
COMMONPLACE IN THE C SW
ANY LONG-DISTANCE EXCHANGE OF ESSENTIALS AND LUXURIES BY FARMING CULTURES USUALLY RESULTS IN SOME FORM OF
RANKED SOCIETY
TRADE WAS APPARENTLY HIGHLY ORGANIZED, AND CONDUCTED BY
LOCAL LEADERS
SOME KIVAS MAY HAVE SERVED AS CENTERS FOR
EXCHANGE SYSTEMS
WHEN THINGS WERE UNPREDICTABLE, SURVIVAL OFTEN DEPENDED ON
SOCIAL TIES WITH OTHER VILLAGES
LUXURY GOODS WERE PRACTICAL IN THAT THEY
COULD LATER BE TRADED FOR FOOD IF NEEDED
ONE OF THE MAJOR TYPES OF THINGS TRADED FOR
RITUAL OBJECTS
GIFTS WOULD BE
RECIPROCATED
IN SW STRUCTURES, ABOUT HALF OF ALL ROOMS WERE
USED FOR STORAGE
STRUCTURED ALLIANCES OFTEN INVOLVED ONE OR MORE
CENTRAL SITES
BASICALLY UNIFORM
ARCHITECTURE
RELATIVELY HOMOGENEOUS
CERAMIC STYLES
SOME SIGNS OF SPECIAL
CRAFTSMANSHIP
REGULAR PRACTICE OF
TRADE AND EXCHANGE
SOME DEGREE OF
SOCIAL RANKING
ALLIANCES ALWAYS SEEMED TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH DRAMATIC
POPULATION INCREASE