Chapter 5: Subsistence

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Across
  1. 3. the food acquired can be immediately consumed. Foraging is an immediate return system.
  2. 8. and distribute food.
  3. 11. subsistence into four broad categories: foraging, pastoralism, horticulture, and agriculture.
  4. 15. economy the work associated with obtaining food for a family or household.
  5. 17. the cultivation of domesticated plants and animals using technologies that allow for intensive use of the land.
  6. 18. the passage of time between planting and harvest. The opposite is an immediate return system in
  7. 19. and led to the emergence of agriculture. Neolithic means “new stone age,” a name referring to the
  8. 20. return system techniques for obtaining food that require an investment of work over a period
  9. 21. of land in order to support a human population.
  10. 23. of subsistence the techniques used by the members of a society to obtain food. Anthropologists
  11. 26. for food is characterized by a separation of the producers of goods from the consumers.
  12. 28. the cultural norms and attitudes surrounding food and eating.
  13. 29. ecology the study of how human cultures have developed over time as a result of interactions with the environment.
  14. 30. chain the series of steps a food takes from location where it is produced to the store where
Down
  1. 1. Revolution a period of rapid innovation in subsistence technologies that began 10,000 years
  2. 2. spectrum diet a diet based on a wide range of food resources.
  3. 4. capacity a measurement of the number of calories that can be extracted from a particular
  4. 5. system the set of skills, practices, and technologies used by members of a society to
  5. 6. dietary diversity and carries the risk of malnutrition compared to a more diverse diet.
  6. 7. environment spaces that are human-made, including cultivated land as well as buildings.
  7. 9. a subsistence system in which people raise herds of domesticated livestock.
  8. 10. a subsistence system based on the small-scale cultivation of crops intended primarily for
  9. 12. system a complex economic system through which goods circulate around the globe. The world
  10. 13. a subsistence system that relies on wild plant and animal food resources. This system is sometimes called “hunting and gathering.”
  11. 14. is sold to consumers
  12. 16. tools produced during this time period.
  13. 22. direct consumption of the household or immediate community.
  14. 24. time before the food becomes available for consumption. Farming is a delayed return system due
  15. 25. crops foods that form the backbone of the subsistence system by providing the majority of the
  16. 27. the reliance on a single plant species as a food source. Mono-cropping leads to
  17. 30. a society consumes.