Read Jared Diamond’s article, “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race.”
It can be found online at:
https://arachnid.biosci.utexas.edu/courses/THOC/Readings/Diamond_WorstMistake.pdf
It is also posted on Canvas in the Neolithic Revolution Module as a MS Word document
Read the assignment and be ready to discuss it next week.
Submit a paper that summarizes your understanding of the impact of domestication on lifestyles of the past. Answer the questions: How did agriculture affect human life styles and society? Do you think Diamond is right? Are there advantages to domestication that he overlooks?
Find a prehistoric New World crop (plant or domesticated animal) and research on the web. Try to find out where it came from, what it’s wild form was and when it was first cultivated or domesticated.