Until quite recently the development of the societies which exist on earth progressed at an extremely slow rate. Hunting and gathering were the only form of human survival for 99% of human history (1). These Hunter Gatherer societies date back to 50000BCE.(2) The nomadic people belonging to these societies hunted, fished for and gathered their food. For around 480,000 years (2) these were the only societies to have existed on the planet. However, the very few cultures like these that still exist today (about 0.001% of the wold’s population) are unlikely to exist for much longer. (p112 book) This is due to the introduction of Agarian and Pastoral societies which came into existence at around 20000 BCE (book p115) as they brought the first significant
