Pastoralism - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Hunter-gatherer - Answer a member of a nomadic group whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods. Neolithic Revolution - Answer the shift from hunting of animals and gathering of food to the keeping of animals and the growing of food on a regular basis around 8,000 BC Pastoralism - Answer A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter. Urbanization - Answer the s...

Candlelight for Health, Education & Environment Report The Impact of Climate Change on Pastoral Societies of Somaliland 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Pastoralism is a traditional land management and production system which mimics wildlife in its basic principles. Through its dynamic, flexible and complex structures it has proved to be mostly adapted to the erratic climate and non-equilibrium natural conditions of drylands by providing and conserving a large array of ecosystem services in semi-arid t...

History 101 Exam With Elaborated Question & Answer () How did the advent of farming and pastoralism affect the various peoples of Africa? - CORRECT ANSWER-Recent evidence has shown that pastoralism was likely practiced south of the Lower Nile Valley as far back as the ninth millennium BCE, with the domestication of grains and vegetables following soon thereafter. True or false: Before the sixth and seventh centuries BCE, the Sahara was totally unsuited to agriculture because of its ...

Anthropology Exam 1 TAMU Lynch (2023/2024) Rated A Anthropology The comparative and holistic study of human biology and culture Human paleontology Biological anthropology. Study of human and primate fossil records. Human origins Osteology Study of human skeleton Archaeology Study of human cultural remains, reconstruct past human societies. Artifacts found with human burials. Porotic Hypertosis medical disorder caused by malnutiriton and iron deficiency anemia resulting in the bones of the cr...

what are the characteristics of Swidden agriculture/slash and burn? correct answers - slash and burn or shifting agriculture - subsistence agriculture that uses little technology - burn and/or clear a plot of land for crops - shift plots over time - plots at different stages of production and regeneration Darna Dufour correct answers what are the benefits of poly-cultural plots? correct answers - nutrient cycling, phenology, soil stability - pest, disease, and environmental protection...

Ch 13: Darna Dufour correct answers tukanoan indians in northwest amazon What are the characteristics of Swidden agriculture/slash and burn correct answers -slash-burn or shifting agriculture -subsistence agriculture that uses little technology -burn and/or clear a plot of land for crops - shift plots over time -plots at different stages of production and regeneration -hunting, fishing, and collecting -use of other forest resources (Swidden crop = mostly carbohydrates, forest provides...

Hunter-gatherer - Answer- a member of a nomadic group whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods. Neolithic Revolution - Answer- the shift from hunting of animals and gathering of food to the keeping of animals and the growing of food on a regular basis around 8,000 BC Pastoralism - Answer- A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter. Urbanization - Answer- the social pr...

Food shortages: H&G, Hort, Past, Int. Agr. - H&G= rare Hort= infrequent past=frequent int. agr=frequent political leadership:H&G, Hort, Past, Int. Agr. - H&G= informal Hort= some part time officials past= part/full time officials int. agr= many full time officials Anthropology - holistic study of human kind and human nature. ethnocentrism - belief that the ways of ones own culture are the only proper ones. instead, anthropologists study various cultures to gain a holi...

Characteristics of Swidden's agriculture correct answers -Slash-and-burn agriculture -Burn and/or clear a plot of land for crops- shift plots over time -Plots at different stages of production and regeneration BENEFITS of POLY CULTURAL PLOTS correct answers -Nutrient cycling -phenology -soil stability -Pest, disease, and environmental protection- reduced crop failure Outcomes of Cassava in India correct answers -Women's accounts of Cassava, Millets, and Labor in South India -Cash ...