third day of western civ

Today we watched “GUNS GERMS AND STEEL” by Jared Diamond and National Geographic again. We found out from the video that saho comes from a tree and is not very nutritious and does not last very long. Because of this, the New Guineans are sometimes forced to eat giant spiders to get enough food for the day. An archaeologist from Canada named Dr. Ian Kuijt, from Notre Dame University, studied the river Draa in the Jordan valley, near the Dead Sea. He found what is thought to be the first village. He found crop domestication and silo-like building used as a granary. He talked about how the humans back then were subconsciously modifying crops by choosing the traits they liked. Jared Diamond hypothesized that the reason New Guineans were poor was because of their type of farming. The crops used by New Guineans are low on nutrition and are not long lasting like barley and corn, which are found in Africa and the Americas.

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