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Home Resources CARTA Glossary

Agriculture

Definition: 

A subsistence strategy that relies on domestication of species instead of hunting and gathering wild animals and plants.

Related Vocabulary: 
Domestication
Hunting and gathering
Species
Symposia: 
How Humans Came to Construct Their Worlds
Human Origins and Humanity's Future: Past, Present and Future of the Anthropocene
Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes
Imagining the Future of Anthropogeny
The Role of Myth in Anthropogeny
We Are What We Ate: The Diets That Fueled Human Evolution

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