PDF-[READ]-Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization

In this provocative wideranging book Against the Grain Richard Manning offers a dramatically revisionist view of recent human evolution beginning with the vast increase in brain size that set us apart from our primate relatives and brought an accompanying increase in our need for nourishment For 290000 years we managed to meet that need as huntergatherers a state in which Manning believes we were at our most human at our smartest strongest most sensually alive But our reliance on food made a secure supply deeply attractive and eventually we embarked upon the agricultural experiment that has been the history of our past 10000 yearsThe evolutionary road is littered with failed experiments however and Manning suggests that agriculture as we have practiced it runs against both our grain and natures Drawing on the work of anthropologists biologists archaeologists and philosophers along with his own travels he argues that not only our ecological illsoverpopulation erosion pollutionbut our social and emotional malaise are rooted in the devils bargain we made in our notsodistant past And he offers personal achievable ways we might recontour the path we have taken to resurrect what is most sustainable and sustaining in our own nature and the planets. How did the Olmec and the Zapotec influence later cultures? . World History . Section 5, Unit 1 pt. 2. The Maya. Objectives. Analyze the geography of the Mesoamerican region occupied by the Maya. . Describe how the Olmec and Zapotec influenced the Maya civilization.. - - - - -. The . Donut. . Olympics. Beard AP World. 2014-2015. Rules of the Game. Choose the following roles: hand-raiser, speaker. I will read each question/clue out loud. When I finish reading the entire question/clue, I will call on the first hand I see. If your hand comes up early, I will not call on your group.. Slow Money Maine. July 23, 2015. Adaptive Agriculture LLC ~ contact: . mark@adaptive.ag; . geoff@adaptive.ag ~ all content . proprietary. and . confidential. Adaptive Ag. adapt. . –. . become adjusted to new conditions . Subsistence (LDC). Shifting Cultivation. Slash-and-burn. Pastoral nomadism. Intensive wet rice and non-rice dominant. Lots of work. Commercial (MDC). Dairy. Grain. Livestock. Mediterranean. Commercial gardening. i. Beginnings – reformation. August 30: Beginnings. Beginnings. Mesopotamia. Egypt. Beginnings. History of civilization: how to date?. Definition of “text”. Hunter/gatherer vs. producer/settler. Period 1 Review. Big Picture: Turning Points. Emergence of Humankind. Globalization of Humankind. Revolution of Farming and Herding. Emergence of Civilizations. Chronology. 1.1: Big . Geography and the Peopling of the Earth. Explain how the science of agriculture helped develop civilization;. Identify and define the various areas of science and agriscience; . and . Discuss advancements made through agriscience.. Development of Civilization with Agriculture. Approximately 10,000 years ago humans stopped relying on hunting/gathering techniques and started to grow their own food (farming).. Today the most common method of gathering food is going to the store or market and purchasing what you need and want.. intensify production . by leaving land fallow for shorter periods.. adopt new . farming methods.. Ester . Boserup. In order to farm land more efficiently,. plows must be used.. more weeding must take place.. Know. Hercules (demigod) – Disney movie. Zeus (King of the Gods- Lighting/sky). Poseidon(Sea, trident). 12 Main Greek Gods (Pantheon). Hades (god of the underworld). Everything from Percy Jackson. Titans. Overview . Period 1 Beginning to 600 B.C.E. . Paleolithic Age. Neolithic Age . Neolithic Revolution. River Valley Civilizations . Mesopotamia. Egypt. Indus Valley . Huang He river valley . Question 1. As . agriculture spread, different . areas began . to grow different crops that were suited to their . environment. .. These . places where people began to settle down, grow crops, and start villages became known as the . In this provocative, wide-ranging book, Against the Grain, Richard Manning offers a dramatically revisionist view of recent human evolution, beginning with the vast increase in brain size that set us apart from our primate relatives and brought an accompanying increase in our need for nourishment. For 290,000 years, we managed to meet that need as hunter-gatherers, a state in which Manning believes we were at our most human: at our smartest, strongest, most sensually alive. But our reliance on food made a secure supply deeply attractive, and eventually we embarked upon the agricultural experiment that has been the history of our past 10,000 years.The evolutionary road is littered with failed experiments, however, and Manning suggests that agriculture as we have practiced it runs against both our grain and nature\'s. Drawing on the work of anthropologists, biologists, archaeologists, and philosophers, along with his own travels, he argues that not only our ecological ills-overpopulation, erosion, pollution-but our social and emotional malaise are rooted in the devil\'s bargain we made in our not-so-distant past. And he offers personal, achievable ways we might re-contour the path we have taken to resurrect what is most sustainable and sustaining in our own nature and the planet\'s. ,xtension stored grain and stored-grain products. These moths Photo credit: Whitney AranshaX, Aolorado State University (BugXood LetXori, UEA1246.5) Precautionary StatementTo protect people