Anthropology Reading - Food and Culture

NameCourse InstructorDate Anthropology Reading - Food and Culture Agriculture the great revolution Transition from foraging to farming reduced mobility and the people became sedentary and mostly relied on the starchy foodstuffs. There was decrease in nutritional diversity from the diets available as people too up intense farming. Life expectancy does not depend on diet alone as inability to treat infections and some diseases affected the Paleolithic humans. Food was not abundant, while the foragers and hunter-gatherers did not have access to modern medicines and healthcare. There was also high infant mortality rate, but those who survived childhood hood and teenage years lived long. The Paleolithic diet includes meat, fish and the plants are nuts, seeds, vegetables and different fruits, and this...