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Food and the Human Story (The Neolithic Revolution (Downsides of…

- - - - stealth, endurance, strength, accuracy throwing, good judgement for distance
    - - Tools: effective, safe, concept of projectiles, archery, distance, food science
      - social links: working together , communication
      - freezing and aging meats to preserve
  - - - persistence, perseverance, good vision in low light, good placement mem
    - - pottery, basketry
      - botany: seasonality, other use, dye, materials
      - food processing, herbal meds, gathering animals like turtles fish snails
      - fire: protection, dark, predators, roasting, stick and fire, het water, heat rock to put in water
        
        benefits of cooking your food: easier to chew and digest- less e, bigger brain 25% more food
- - - - versus HG, pack light, less kids
  - - - more work, spread diseases, infection, close to live stock (30 v 3000), no variety
  - - - Mesopotamia, Indus Valley, Nile Valley, Yellow River Valley, 30 degrees north
        
        wild grain, abundant supply, not HG everyday...NO farming, NO planting = trans ---> settling x times/yr picking crops
    - - first grains more nutrition, fall first, but now going to humans, domestication, overtime hard fallers, planting and harvesting = whole life cycle more work v HG