Domestication of plants and animals

Domestication of plants and animals

Article purpose:

• domestication of plants and animals as transition from Paleolithic to Neolithic
• sedentary lifestyle as preceding and not necessarily the result of that transition from paleolithic to neolithic
• domestication across time and space, including
  • dogs
  • horses
  • grasses
  • tubers (enlarged, fleshy stem, usually underground of plants such as carrots, potatoes, yams)

todo:

• see Lil J p. 236 on 3 advantages of Fertile Crescent
• break into separate articles for plants and animals

domestication etymology

• "domestication"
  • = act of taming, breeding, controlling plants and animals
  • from domestic ("or or for the house") + -ation (making of)
    • = making something of the house (home)
    • from Latin domus for house, household, home
      • from PIE *dem- meaning the same
• definitions and uses of the word "domestic"
  • domestic (noun)
    • a person who works in a house or home, generally for cleaning, cooking, child care
    • a locally or nationally made product (not made overseas)
  • domestic (adj)
    • related to the household
      • as in "domestic chores" or "domestic life"
    • related, from, or made in a country
      • as in "the domestic economy" or "domestic production"
    • an animal kept in a house
• domesticated
  • past participle adjective
  • = "having been tamed"
    • generally for animals
  • or having been brought into a home or household

domestication origins timeline

domestication of animals

domestication of plants