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Module 3-2 Journal: Food Processing
Taylor Heger
Southern New Hampshire University
ATH-101 Introduction to Anthropology
Mickie Murin
01/22/2023
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Food Processing
How have historical developments for food production impacted modern-day life? How
has food production impacted the things you do today?
Incorporate course into your assignment.concepts
Address the of anthropological events on modern society.consequences
Relate anthropological events to your own situation.
The transition from foraging to farming occurred between 10,000 to 11,000 years ago in
the Fertile Crescent of Southwest Asia. It brought about “a series of profound health, lifestyle,
social, and economic changes affecting human populations throughout most of the world”
(Larsen et al., 2019). This progression was one of the most significant and impressive
movements in human evolution. Archaeologists credit sedentism as the reasoning for the most
compelling changes in food production. Sedentism is defined as the “year-round settlement in a
