"Southwest Indian, member of any of the Native American peoples inhabiting the southwestern United States; some scholars also include the peoples of northwestern Mexico in this culture area. More than 20 percent of Native Americans in the United States live in this region, principally in the present-day states of Arizona and New Mexico.
The Southwest culture area is located between the Rocky Mountains and the Mexican Sierra Madre. The Continental Divide separates the landscape into the watersheds of two great river systems: the Colorado–Gila–San Juan, in the west, and the Rio Grande–Pecos, in the east. The environment is arid, with some areas averaging less than 4 inches (10 cm) of precipitation each year; droughts are common. Despite its low moisture content, coarse texture, and occasional salty patches, the soil of most of the Southwest is relatively fertile.
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The distribution of resources in the region is determined more by elevation than by latitude. The predominant landscape feature in the north is the Colorado Plateau, a cool, arid plain into which the Colorado and Rio Grande systems have carved deep canyons. Precipitation tends to be greater at the plateau’s higher elevations, which support scrub and piñon-juniper woodland, rattlesnakes, rabbits, coyotes, bobcats, and mule deer. At lower elevations the plateau also supports grasses and antelope. To the south the river systems descend from the plateau, and canyons, mesas, and steep escarpments give way to a basin and range system. River valleys here support clusters of cottonwood, willow, mesquite, and sycamore trees, and mule deer, fish, and waterfowl. The areas away from the rivers are characterized by desert flora and fauna, including mesquite, creosote bush, cactus, yucca, small mammals, and reptiles."
During the stone age, humans were nomadic. In order to fulfill their basic needs they have to engaged in hunting & gathering process to obtain foods and shelter from their environment. If the food in a certain area became too scarce, they will move and settle to another area.
During the agricultural age on the other hand, humans stayed in one place in a long period of time because they can produce their own food source. They're no longer need to hunt to fulfill their basic needs.
- Their main food sources are different.
During the stone age, animals meat and wild fruits were humans' main food source. As we entered the agricultural age, we started to developed food sources that were easy to produced and provide us with high calories. This is when we slowly transitioned into mostly consuming crops such as Potatoes, rice, and corn.
Waterwheel, Ḥamāh, Syria, similar to those long used for irrigation in the Tigris-Euphrates region. In Iraq most of those crops depend on irrigation, which can be applied in three ways: by flow from rivers and canals through small channels, by lifting with wheels or pumps into channels, and by direct inundation.
La güira, de la tradición taína de la isla; un cilindro compuesto de metal con un cepillo para tocarlo de arriba a abajo. El yembé, un tambor de origen africano. El acordeón, de la cultura española.
The way the chief has performed an act of gift giving in a
way that forms sharing accumulated wealth and enhancing the chief’s prestige is
a form of redistribution. Redistribution is a form of having to share or
distribute in a way that the individual will achieve his or her goals in means
of having to produce equality among the people or society.
