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Food and Culture test 2
Focuses on food production since domestication
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 2
11/05/2009

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domestication
Definition
PROCESS in which human management of the reproduction of a plant or animal species establishes mutual dependence between that species and humans
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Anthropogenic environment
Definition
an environment impacted or created by human activities
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Morphology
Definition
form and structure (here used to refer to characteristics of plants or animals)
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BP
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when you see a date give as xxxx BP it means years before the present
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world systems parts
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core and periphery
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core
Definition
modern-day developed world, former empires/colonizers, have more mechanization, export hi-tech goods and capital intensive/processed food
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periphery
Definition
developing world, formerly the colonies, have less money, exports reliant on human labor (not mechanized), are often raw materials (minerals, ores, food), labor intensive-food and material goods.
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