Today in class we watched a movie on Jared Diamond’s adventure around the world to see if different human races are agriculturally smarter than others. Diamond is a professor at UCLA and bird watcher. He was able to witness how we live and found food thirteen thousand years ago by traveling to New Guinea and living in a hunter gather’s life. Hunter Gathers spend their whole day gather food and go hunting. Since everyone in the family or tribe is gathering food there is no one to build a home. Since places run out of food easily they have to pick up and leave to a new place every day. These people are kind of like bears they both gather food and have to leave to a new home. About eleven million years ago people finally realized they did not need to keep moving. If they grew their food and stored it they could stay right where they were. Sago is one of the many gathering foods in New Guinea. One tree is 70 pounds of Sago and it is low on protein. It can also not be stored for many years like Barley and wheat like in the Middle East. This is just geographic luck. People in New Guinea have bad geographic luck because they have to eat spiders for their protein. Also, making Sago is very time consuming. In the Middle East they there is more geographic luck. They have barley and wheat which has protein, can be stored for a longer amount of time and is less time consuming. Not longer after the Middle East found barley and wheat China’s main farming produce was rice. When the ice age occurred it caused a huge drought for 1000 years killing many trees and food supplies. During the drought the Middle Eastern people started growing their own food and would stay as close to water as possible. Stone Age people where becoming the first farmers and changed land around them. Once they started farming they realized we could control nature which is domesticated crops. Domesticated crops are crops you can control and manipulate so you can keep growing and controlling crops. In Dra archeologist are starting to find remaining’s of what might have been a city during the drought 11.5 million years ago.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Finding Roots 1-31
Jared Diamond-professor at UCLA, bird watcher, trying to find origin of how some races are smarter, Interviewed a guy and asked why he had so much cargo. Witnessed how we lived and found food thirteen thousand years ago by traveling to New Guinea.
Movie Takes place in New Guinea
Highlands of New Guinea-most densely populated places here. Farming isn't as able to be stored as the middle east. The crops are low in protein and cannot be stored for years. They have a lot of Bananas. Since they have such low protein they eat big spiders for their protein.
History is when people started making records.
Hunter Gathers-they wake up to gather food and go hunting as soon as they wake up. No one has a home because everyday they have to pick up and leave to find a new place to get food their kind of like dogs or bears. 11 million years ago they finally realized that they didn't need to keep moving they can store it and they finally got a home. Sago is one of the many gathering foods it is the main food. One tree is 70 pounds of sago. Sago is low on protein. cannot produce more food then farmers and can not store food as long as farmers.
Hunting takes time and has never been a productive way of finding food. It is also very unpredictable thats way most people gather.
Barley and wheat are way more nutrition in than Sago and is found in the east. It would have to be very hot for it to grow. durable to be stored for years.
During the drought in the middle east people started growing their own food they would stay as close to water as possible. Stone age people in the middle east where becoming the first farmers and changed land around them. Once they started farming they realized we could control nature.
When the ice age happened it caused a huge drought for 1000 years killing many trees and food supplies.
In Dra the archeologist are string to find remaining of what might have been a city. 11.5 million years ago was what they predict the city was in thats about when the drought happened.
Not long after middle east came China the main farming produce was rice.
Geographic luck is the way races are more healthy. People who live in New Guinea are unlucky and only have spiders to eat they also don't have protein. In the middle east they have barley and wheat which can be stored for a long time and have protein. It is also a lot less time consuming.
People mostly spend time on finding food some cultures thats all they have time to do so no one can make weapons or building homes.
Domesticated Crops is when you can control and munipulate so you can grow different crops.
Movie Takes place in New Guinea
Highlands of New Guinea-most densely populated places here. Farming isn't as able to be stored as the middle east. The crops are low in protein and cannot be stored for years. They have a lot of Bananas. Since they have such low protein they eat big spiders for their protein.
History is when people started making records.
Hunter Gathers-they wake up to gather food and go hunting as soon as they wake up. No one has a home because everyday they have to pick up and leave to find a new place to get food their kind of like dogs or bears. 11 million years ago they finally realized that they didn't need to keep moving they can store it and they finally got a home. Sago is one of the many gathering foods it is the main food. One tree is 70 pounds of sago. Sago is low on protein. cannot produce more food then farmers and can not store food as long as farmers.
Hunting takes time and has never been a productive way of finding food. It is also very unpredictable thats way most people gather.
Barley and wheat are way more nutrition in than Sago and is found in the east. It would have to be very hot for it to grow. durable to be stored for years.
During the drought in the middle east people started growing their own food they would stay as close to water as possible. Stone age people in the middle east where becoming the first farmers and changed land around them. Once they started farming they realized we could control nature.
When the ice age happened it caused a huge drought for 1000 years killing many trees and food supplies.
In Dra the archeologist are string to find remaining of what might have been a city. 11.5 million years ago was what they predict the city was in thats about when the drought happened.
Not long after middle east came China the main farming produce was rice.
Geographic luck is the way races are more healthy. People who live in New Guinea are unlucky and only have spiders to eat they also don't have protein. In the middle east they have barley and wheat which can be stored for a long time and have protein. It is also a lot less time consuming.
People mostly spend time on finding food some cultures thats all they have time to do so no one can make weapons or building homes.
Domesticated Crops is when you can control and munipulate so you can grow different crops.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
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