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  2. Human uses of living things - Wikipedia

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    Human uses of living things, including animals, plants, fungi, and microbes, take many forms, both practical, such as the production of food and clothing, and symbolic, as in art, mythology, and religion. Social sciences including archaeology, anthropology and ethnography are starting to take a multispecies view of human interactions with ...

  3. Emergence of agriculture in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    After the arrival of the Spanish and the plow technology they brought with them, agricultural development occurred and rice was being cultivated in larger volumes. [7] Eventually, rice was no longer a prestige product or a seasonal offering, and instead was grown all year round and by the 19th century rice surpluses allowed for the product to ...

  4. Animal domestication and management in the Philippines

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    Domesticated animals in the Philippines include pigs, chickens, water buffalo, goats, cats, and dogs. [1][2] Domestication is when a species is selectively bred to produce certain traits that are seen as desirable. [3] Some desirable traits include quicker growth and maturity, increased fertility, adaptability to various conditions, and living ...

  5. Domestication of vertebrates - Wikipedia

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    The domestication of vertebrates is the mutual relationship between vertebrate animals including birds and mammals, and the humans who have influence on their care and reproduction. [1] Charles Darwin recognized a small number of traits that made domesticated species different from their wild ancestors. He was also the first to recognize the ...

  6. History of archaeology in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The Philippines have had a long legacy of Spanish colonization of over 300 years. To begin to understand the archaeology of the Philippines, colonization by the Spanish must be factored in and understood. As Carl Guthe puts, as he excavated the Philippines during the 1920s, "The Filipinos have been under Christian influence for such a long ...

  7. Cultural achievements of pre-colonial Philippines - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The cultural achievements of pre-colonial Philippines include those covered by the prehistory and the early history (900–1521) of the Philippine archipelago's inhabitants, the pre-colonial forebears of today's Filipino people. Among the cultural achievements of the native people's belief systems, and culture in general, that are notable ...

  8. Origins of agriculture in West Asia - Wikipedia

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    Before their domestication, domesticated plants and animals were exploited in the form of gathering and hunting, with the methods and techniques required for domestication already known at the end of the Palaeolithic. Between 9500 and 8500 B.C., “pre-domestic” forms of agriculture were introduced; plants still had a wild character, but ...

  9. Timeline of agriculture and food technology - Wikipedia

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    7000 BC – Cultivation of wheat, sesame, barley, and eggplant in Mehrgarh (modern day Pakistan). 7000 BC – Domestication of cattle and chicken in Mehrgarh, modern day Pakistan. 6800 BC – Rice domesticated in southeast Asia. 6500 BC – Evidence of cattle domestication in Turkey. [2] Some sources say this happened earlier in other parts of ...