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    Vere Gordon Childe in the 1930s proposed the "Neolithic Revolution" theory to define the first agricultural revolution. This revolution transformed human economy by giving man control over his own food supply as people began planting, cultivating, and domesticating grasses, roots, trees, and animals. As a revolution, the introduction of food production would have affected all people and be reflected in population growth as children became economically useful. However, food gathering did not immediately stop as the earliest farming settlements practiced mixed economies of food production and gathering. Theories to explain the origins of agriculture include the Oasis Theory, Hilly Flanks hypothesis, Demographic theories, Evolutionary/Intentionality theory, and the Feasting model.

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    Vere Gordon Childe in the 1930s proposed the "Neolithic Revolution" theory to define the first agricultural revolution. This revolution transformed human economy by giving man control over his own food supply as people began planting, cultivating, and domesticating grasses, roots, trees, and animals. As a revolution, the introduction of food production would have affected all people and be reflected in population growth as children became economically useful. However, food gathering did not immediately stop as the earliest farming settlements practiced mixed economies of food production and gathering. Theories to explain the origins of agriculture include the Oasis Theory, Hilly Flanks hypothesis, Demographic theories, Evolutionary/Intentionality theory, and the Feasting model.

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    Vere Gordon Childe in the 1930s proposed the "Neolithic Revolution" theory to define the first agricultural revolution. This revolution transformed human economy by giving man control over his own food supply as people began planting, cultivating, and domesticating grasses, roots, trees, and animals. As a revolution, the introduction of food production would have affected all people and be reflected in population growth as children became economically useful. However, food gathering did not immediately stop as the earliest farming settlements practiced mixed economies of food production and gathering. Theories to explain the origins of agriculture include the Oasis Theory, Hilly Flanks hypothesis, Demographic theories, Evolutionary/Intentionality theory, and the Feasting model.

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    Vere Gordon Childe in 1930s.

    NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION
    To define the first agricultural revolution

    "revolution" to denote its importance, and the great significance


    and degree of change which transformed human economy
    giving man control over his own food supply

    Man began to plant, cultivate and improve by selection of edible


    grasses, roots and trees. And he succeeded in taming and firmly
    attaching to his person certain species of animals

    As a revolution the introduction of food producing economy should


    affect the lives of all concerned so as to be reflected in the population
    curve. Children become economically useful

    The adoption of cultivation must not be confused with the adoption of


    sedentary life; certain methods of cultivation imposes a sort of nomadism;
    cultivation in Egypt was not so simple

    Food production does not at once superceded food gathering. all the
    oldest food producing settlements examined by archaeologists in
    Europe. Asia and north Africa, the basic industry is mixed farming
    Two other aspects of the simple food producing economy deserves
    attention

    •food production even in its simplest form, provides and opportunity and
    a motive for the accumulation of surplus . A crop must not be consumed
    as soon as it is reaped and livestock must not be indiscriminately
    slaughtered and devoured

    •Secondly the economy is entirely self sufficing

    The new industry has great significance for human thought and for the
    beginning of science; Pot making is perhaps the earliest conscious
    utilization by man of a chemical change; clay changes not only its
    physical consistency but also its colour; Man had to learn to control
    such changes as these and to utilize them to enhance the beauty of the
    vessel

    first indication of textile industry

    Fertility cults, magic rites become more prominent than ever in


    Neolithic times

    close observation of the seasons and sun and stars attaining its
    divinity
    OTHER COMPETING THEORIES
    The Oasis Theory- proposed by Raphael Pumpelly in 1908,
    popularized by Vere Gordon Childe in 1928

    The Hilly Flanks hypothesis, proposed by Robert Braidwood in 1948

    The Demographic theories proposed by Carl Sauer and adapted by


    Lewis Binford and Kent Flannery

    The evolutionary/intentionality theory, developed by David Rindos -1.


    incidental domestication, human disoersal and protection of wild plants,
    2. specialised domestoication creation of locales in which plants and
    animlas influenced each other, 3. agricultural domestication,
    coevolutionary process

    The Feasting model by Brian Hayden and Barbara Bender

    The younger Dryas Phenomenon


    Readings for this lecture:

    Childe, V G. 1963. Man makes Himself. Mentor books, new American


    Library

    Kent V. Flannery. 1973. The Origins of Agriculture in Annual Review of


    Anthropology, Vol. 2, pp. 271-310

    Hayden Brian . 2009. The Proof Is in the Pudding: Feasting and the
    Origins of Domestication in Current Anthropology, Vol. 50, No. 5, pp. 597-
    601

    Watson Richard P., Donna E. Hobbs and David Rindos. 1986. On


    Darwinian Selection and Cultural Evolution in Current Anthropology, Vol.
    27, No. 2
    pp. 151-152

    Rosenberg Michael, 1990. The Mother of Invention: Evolutionary Theory,


    Territoriality, and the Origins of Agriculture. In American Anthropologist,
    New Series, Vol. 92, No. 2, pp. 399-415

    Braidwood, Robert. 1960 The agricultural revolution. Scientific .


    American. 203:130-141.

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