Characteristics Of Gatherers And Agriculturist

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Hunters and gatherers, and agriculturists. They are the same in many ways. But they are also very different. I'm going to go back to when there wasn't any grocery stores and you had to go out and get your own food or grow it. Back when there wasn't any big cities or concrete cities. This is a time when the world was free, absolutely free. When there wasn't technology it was either you went out and killed your food, or later in time they figured out that you could grow it. If you were a hunter and gather you would have a less diverse diet, you would grow 2 or so crops and eat that. A hunter would go out and take a little of something and or kill a little bit of something at a time. They will always be on the move and going from place to place. And a agriculturalist would just stay in one place. And since they would stay in one place they would have more kids. They could have more children since they wouldn't have to move from place to place. Hunters couldn't do that because they were unable to carry a child around. The knowledge is different between these two groups also. The hunters and gatherers were out trying to kill and pick there own food. So they didn't really know how to use that stuff and know how to plant their own crops. All the hunters really needed to know was how to kill the animal, clean/ skin the animal ,and …show more content…
They were always moving from place, following the food wherever the were at, and wherever they were going to. One thing that they have that is good is a diverse diet. It keeps them healthy and the food I feel like would never get boring and disgusting. I think if you were an agriculturalist the food that you would be eating would be the same, constantly just eating the same food over and over again. An agriculturalist would have to wait on his or her food for an amount of time also. Unlike a hunter they wouldn't be able to kill a deer and drag it home and eat

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