quote:Originally posted by Djehuti: Tukuler is right. The neolithic was not a "revolution" but rather a process that took centuries if not millennia to achieve, and I am referring to here the domestication process. Since men were the hunters and women were the gatherers during the Paleolithic it was men who domesticated animals and women who domesticated plants respectively and the archaeology supports this. These founding women were not only able to take control of the planting process themselves but were to selectively breed the plant species they procured via crossbreeding and grafting thus producing certain quality vegetation and fruits. The founding men were able to selectively breed their wild and dangerous game animals into the more docile and productive kinds we know today.
Motherhood madekes mature females less eligible hunters. Like plants females were kinda rooted in a settlement. Foraging closer to home and becoming familiar with botany more so than males.
I can see gardening a female invention. I wonder the initial female role re corn. Were wheat rye oats spelt barley domesticated by females? Expansive grain fields. Did males have any role?
In the Americas what about maize? Female, male, or joint cultivation?
Pigs are attributed to SE Turkey. But what about them New Guinea piggies? Were females the domesticaters there?
I dunno know anything about this really. Questions come to mind, I ask 'em.
Posted by DD'eDeN (Member # 21966) on :
Wild boar first from Philippines ~ 770ka, Hive honeybees first from SEAsia ~ 750ka, Meteor cosmic impact occurred 780ka Australian Strewn Field, also polar magnetic flip 770ka
domestic pigs first in China ~ 6ka
Austronesians brought pigs to New Guinea, which had only marsupial mammals eg. kangaroo
Posted by Tukuler (Member # 19944) on :