2. Outline:
I. Food collection
II. General Features of
Food Collectors
III. Food Production
IV. Environmental
Restraints on Food-Getting
3. I. FOOD COLLECTION
• May be generally
defined as all forms of
subsistence technology
in which food-getting is
dependent on naturally
occurring sources.
13. 2. The Inuit (Eskimo)
• North American Arctic
• Plants are too scarce
• Depend on sea and land
mammal and fish
• Techniques: harpoon
14. Harpoon
• weapon similar to spear: a
long pointed piece of
metal attached to a cord
and thrown or fired from a
gun in order to capture
whales or other large sea
animals
16. Techniques used in fishing
• Hook
• Line
• Spearing
• Ambushing nets and dams
17. Techniques used in fishing
• Hook
• Line
• Spearing
• Ambushing nets and dams
18. II. General Features of Food
Collectors
• Certain characteristic
cultural patterns
• Sparsely populated territory
• Nomadic life-style
• No differentiation of social
classes
22. Cultivation
• preparation of land or
growing crops: the
planting, growing, and
harvesting of crops or
plants, or the preparation
of land for this purpose
23. Domesticate
• tame animal: to
accustom an animal to
living with or near
people, usually as a
farm animal or pet
24. 3 Major types of Food-
production systems
1. Horticulture
2. Intensive Agriculture
3. Pastoralism
