food production
packages: temperate climate, tropical ...

fertile crescent
apples are hard to domesticate: requires grafting

domesticable animals
dogs were separately domesticated in northamerica

big domestic mammals: sheep, goat, cow (aurox), pig, horse,
one humped camel, bactrian 2 humped camel, llama, donkey, reindeer, water
buffalo, yak, bali cattle, mithun

elepnants are not donesticated
lack of domestic mammals in subsaharan africa

eurasia lost fewer candidates to extinction, higher % of animal candidates
domesticated

taming vs. domestication

rabbits were domesticated only in the middle ages, hamsters 1930ies

aurox (cows) were domesticated multiple places and times, dogs, camels, pigs


eeland, moose, zebra domestication failed

problems:
- diet, inefficient, carnivors for food is inefficient
- slow growth rate: gorilla, elephants
- problem breeding: cheetahs, vacunia
- dispositions: drizzly bear, african biffalo, hippo, asiatic ass, zebra:
dont lasso,
- tendency to panic: deer & antelope, gazelle
- social structure: need to be social, solitary and territorial speciess
are hard to domesticate, rhinos


band - tribe - chiefdom - state

tribe is divided by clans, settled, egalitarian, slight specialization,
reciprocal exchanges

chiefdom: larger 1-10K, chef monopolizes right to use force, visible chief
clothes, luxury goids, levels of bureaucrats, craftsmen, most likely food
productuction, public architectures, chiefs are hereditary, slaves,
redistributive economy, if used by chief lineage: tribute, ideology
justifying social order, monopoly of information and decision power.

state: literate elites rose 3700 bc in mesopotamia, organized on basis of
political/territorial lines rather than kinship lines

food production <-> society complexity

cherokee writing: inspired by english