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Seeds, Glorious Seeds! Examining Food Use in Antiquity
| Location: | Connecticut, United States |
| Lecture Date: | 2009-02-08 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2009-01-16 |
| Announcement ID: |
166341 |
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The Middle East is home to the first agricultural transformation: the Neolithic Revolution that took place about 10,000 years ago. The domestication of plants and animals during this time period played a significant role in the development of human civilization, because it allowed people to settle in more permanent communities as opposed to the traveling bands they had lived in as hunter-gatherers. For the Museum’s Natural History of Food Series, Dr. Alexia Smith, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UConn, will discuss the domestication of grain and the beginning of agriculture in the Fertile Crescent, an event that began a cascade of changes in human lifestyles that ultimately resulted in western civilization. She will give a general introduction to the field of archaeobotany and will bring in specimens from her archaeological investigations for audience members to examine under a microscope. Adults and children ages 10 and above. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
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David C. Colberg
Public Information Coordinator
Connecticut State Museum of Natural History
Connecticut Archaeology Center
University of Connecticut
2019 Hillside Road, Unit 1023
Storrs, CT 06269-1023
Phone: 860.486.5690
Email: david.colberg@uconn.edu
Visit the website at http://www.cac.uconn.edu/mnhhome.html
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