Beginnings of Food Production in the Fertile Crescent Flashcards
Natufian culture was significant in the beginning of food production, why?
people evolved from mobile societies to more sedentary established societies, investing in labour, social ties and resources around their settlements
when did Natufian culture exist and where?
13,000-9600BC
in the Levant region of the East Mediterranean and Middle East
what political changes took place during this time period?
social status was established, shifting from egalitarian to hierarchal
the Younger Dryas period did what?
triggered deliberate cultivation
Indigenous domestication occurred in the middle east during what time period?
Neolithic
when was barley domesticated in the middle east?
9000BC in Netiv Hagdud, Israel and Ganj Dareh in Iran
when were Eikorn and Emmer wheat domesticated in the middle east?
fully domesticated after 8500BC
–also includes lentils, chickpeas, barley and peas
when were sheep domesticated?
8000cal BC in the Zagros & Taurus mountains
when were goats domesticated?
8000BC in the Zagros moutains region
when were cattle domesitcated?
7500cal BC in the marshlands of Northern Syria
when were pigs domesticated?
between 6400 and 7000cal BC in southeastern Turkey
