Details Title: Anthropology Description: CA Chapter 7 Definitions Total Flash Cards: 10 Created: 03/17/2009 18:51:27		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Anthropology Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term carrying capacity Definition The upper limit on the ultimate productivity of any given food-getting system and the size of the population it can support. Term optimal foraging theory Definition A theory that suggests that foragers will choose the animal and plant species that tend to maximize their caloric return for the time they spend searching, killing, collecting, and preparing. Term food collecting Definition The exploitation of wild plants and animals that already exist in the natural environment. Term neolithic revolution Definition Occurring approximately 10,000 years ago, the period in which humans for the first time produced their food by means of horticulture or animal husbandry. Term pastoralism Definition Form of food production that involves the keeping of domestic herd animals and is found in areas of the world that cannot support agriculture because of inadequate terrain, soils, or rainfall. Term transhumance Definition A type of pastoralism in which some of the men in society move their livestock seasonally to different pastures while the women, children, and other men remain in permanent settlements. Term nomadism Definition A type of pastoralism in which there are no permanent villages, and the whole social unit of men, women, and children moves the livestock to new pastures. Term agriculture Definition Differs from horticulture in that agriculture relies on animal power and technology rather than human power alone. Term peasantry Definition Like herders, but not isolated or self-sufficient. Have ties to the larger unit (city or state) Term industrialization Definition Food production that relies on technological sources of energy rather than human or animal energy.