Hunting And Gathering Societies

The human (homo sapiens sapiens) species initially appeared a little over 100,000 years ago. The species has continued to thrive as a whole ever since—expanding the impact of their abilities year after year. In order to understand the sociological evolution of the human species, one must first and foremost understand the basic origins of their sociological patterns. A good question to begin with would be: what events/circumstances prompted the start of hunting and gathering societies? The study of macrosociology focus on the development of human societies, which is fundamentally structured as hunting-gathering, simple horticultural, advanced horticultural, simple agrarian, advanced agrarian—and most recently, industrial. Nonetheless, as previously …show more content…
The subjects who were part of the hunting-gathering society were usually thought of as nomads due to the fact that their lifestyles solely depended on their surroundings which contained vital resources for survival. Additionally, this lifestyle meant that the societies did not usually have contain permanent shelters that were situated at locations. Instead, there was constant movement and relocation in order to comply with these circumstances3. The societies were known to be generally small, because of the fact that larger groups would exhaust the available food supplies in an area.3 Scholars inclusively agree that these small groups were mostly made up of individual family members or a number of related families that collected together in a small …show more content…
The women of the hunting-gathering societies were the ones who stayed at the community’s temporary base, in order to take care of the children. The women of hunting-gathering societies were additionally expected to gather the foods and materials that surrounded the nearby area. On the other hand, the men of the hunting-gathering society were in charge of hunting for animals.4 The men of the society are consequently given the right to consume the meat they hunted before the rest of the family.4
Moreover, the ratio between hunting and gathering in the society most likely depended on the geographical characteristics that surrounded the subjects3. Some hunting-gathering societies primarily focused on hunting, while others focused on gathering. For example, the Eskimos of Arctic Canada, Alaska, and Greenland have primarily relied on the hunting of whales and seals for survival.3 On the other hand, the Bushmen of modern-day South Africa mostly rely on gathering rather than on