Transcription of Chapter 4. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES
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Chapter 4. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES
HORTICULTURAL Societies4-61 Chapter 4. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIESI. IntroductionA. Basic ConceptsHorticultural SOCIETIES are differentiated from hunting and gathering SOCIETIES by theuse of domesticated plants as the major basis for SOCIETIES aretechnically differentiated from agrarian SOCIETIES by their lack of plows and animal traction,and from pastoral SOCIETIES because they do not make domesticated herd animals the mainbasis of more people can be supported per km2by investing effort in replacing relative-ly rare wild plant species that produce relatively few parts that humans can eat with massesof domesticated species that produce relatively great quantities of edible parts.
continuum into “simple” and “advanced” subtypes. The Amazonian Basin horticulturalists like the Yanomamo, Xavante, and Waorani made do with a simple stone axe to cut the for-est, a means of making fire by friction to burn it, and simple wooden digging sticks and
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