Hunter-gatherers

southeast rain forest of the Dja region, in Cameroon, but often cross the border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon. Respectively, the Hadza people live near the lake Eyasi Valley and its surrounding hills in Tanzania. Both are hunter-gatherer and foraging…

Recent studies are focused on an important question regarding civilization: “Will civilization fall to an irreversible doom?” There have been countless examples of societal collapse for many reasons and it all comes down to one conclusion. Progress will lead to our nigh collapse, thus, making it a trap. The very start of civilization can be traced back to when agriculture first started. Jared Diamond claims in his article, “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race,” that agriculture is…

Since the beginning of time, there has been inequality. Although it is thought that Paleolithic hunter-gatherer groups were generally fairly equal, as soon as the Neolithic revolution happened, there started to be divisions based on gender and class as people accumulated more welth and started to own property. This inequality can be seen many different civilizations. In my paper I will, first, talk about types of social inequality and cause, and second, give some examples of inequality. The…

our knowledge about gender roles and food. The first article, Women and Food Chains: The Gendered Politics of Food, by Allen and Sachs, discusses how women have always been responsible for food in society. Whether it be gathering berries in a hunter-gatherer society or a fifties housewife, women and food have a long-lasting relationship. The article discusses three domains in which women have a connection to food. The three domains are corporeal, socio-cultural and material. (cite). The…

Oppression through Neglect and Ignorance Female oppression has been around since the dawn of time going all the way back to the hunter gatherer levels of our existence. While evolving into something more in today’s society of wages being lower and women shown less respect due to their gender. But in the times of the “The Yellow Wallpaper” female oppression is shown through an oppressed women’s perspective. And through this we are shown the levels are oppression in a timely fashion through the…

Elizabeth Kolbert's article, “Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds,” in the New Yorkers February 2017 issue looks at some main ideas in three different psychological books about patterns in human reasoning and attempts to connect them to today’s politics. Her explanation of the studies and their outcomes were superb, though she could have done a better job at connecting these points to her political conclusion. It is difficult to distinguish what her main point is. She starts the article by…

“high protein and low carbohydrate” diets that have been sweeping the nation. The creators of the paleo diet operate under a variety of unique assumptions about how the human digestive system works. Essentially, they believe that since we were hunter and gatherers for a majority of our existence, the human digestive system is adapted specifically to these…

Middle East, men were above women because it was thought to be more appropriate that the head of the household was a man. Around the Neolithic period, women in Mesopotamia first had their statuses and potential downgraded when men no longer were hunter and gatherers. They converted to the domestication of agriculture for means of a more supplied and controlled food source and overall survival. This affected women because men began working around home and pushed the women out of the way, reaping…

available to paleolithic humans. Since this diet encompases the diet of early man it excludes modern processed foods and follows only what human ate during the Neolithic Revolution, the time period in which human became more agricultural than hunters and gatherers, this means the removal of processed oils, salt, alcohol, and coffee. The idea of the diet was behind a man call Walter Voegtlin, a man who would be made famous by the best-selling author Loren Cordain. Walter Voegtlin sparked the…

Importance of studying Native North Americans The importance of studying the Native North Americans or any other indigenous group is that, the studies tend to offer an opportunity for intellectuals and different scholars to reflect more about the past, learn the history of colonization, and to find appropriate and effective means to forging a stronger future for different nations. The studies also help learners to get facts about the cultural groups that exist in the North Americas. The various…