Hunter-gatherers

For the last few hundreds of thousands of years, people have mostly eaten food from two food groups: lean protein and natural carbohydrates, such as fruits and fiber-rich vegetables. Dr. Sears argues that human genes are still those of the hunter-gatherer, rather than the farmer. Farming is a relatively new phenomenon, as far as our genes are concerned. In other words, our genes have not yet adapted to a diet of consuming farmed products. People are not programmed to consume large amounts of…

However, the Anasazi seem to have a different story. No one is sure of who these peoples really were and why they left Colorado. Historians have unveiled many facts but the truth is still a blur. The Anasazi people are known to be possible farmers, hunters, and nomads, but where they disappeared to is still a mystery. Background…

Women were also celebrated in hunter-gatherer societies; Hunters were not always certain to bring home an animal, therefor most of the food they ate were collected by women. It wasn’t till the beginning of agriculture that women started playing a “lower role”. Men began farming and while they were…

today’s American culture. More than half of our food supply comes from American Indian agriculture. Many of our established places have names derived from their language. Places such as cities, states, and even lakes. The Native Americans were hunters and gatherers and they created things that our society has built on and improved. Many of the games they played and foods they ate are the basis of today. The earliest information we have of Native Americans dates back to 1942 when Christopher…

and Trade: Seeds for Society Human society in the time before 11,000 BCE looked much the same regardless of location. All human’s shared the same never ending desire to satiate their hunger in the quest for food. Within the constraints of a hunter-gatherer lifestyle humanities penchant for diversity and ingenuity had little room for flourishment. With no permanent refuge and no place for storage besides your own person, only the essentials to life could be taken with you. Because of this,…

Throughout history we hear the word nomadic and constantly associate this term with words such as, savage, heathen, hunter gatherer. What if I made the claim that nomads created the largest land empire in history in the shortest amount of time. It might be hard to believe with words commonly associated with Nomad. The Mongols from Northern China empire began in Northern China in 1206 and expanded from the Pacific ocean to the Black Sea. Impressively they were able to achieve this feat in only…

The archetypal role of women in A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong, “Creation”, and Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse illustrates the nurturing, stay-at-home role of women. In Myth, Armstrong clearly paints the picture for us: women were the attentive figures in these early civilizations. Because of their maternal role, she explains, the earth later was seen as female. The same theme plays out in the Mohawk myth “Creation”: we see the universe created by a holy female being and she is treated…

point where they have to change their entire lifestyle in such a way, shows the possible impact climate can have. After all, if a little ice age can turn farmers into fishermen, then why can’t climate variation turn fishermen and farmers into hunter-gatherers? But this is not the only effect that climate variation had on Iceland. The little ice age is a period when the North Atlantic Ocean often froze throughout the year. Lamb writes, “The sea ice was tending to increase further and in the worst…

it argues that slow growth and high mortality rates are highly associated with nutritional status. The early hominids are the cornerstone of assistance to the comprehension of the evolution of the human diet. The early hominids were mostly hunters and gatherers (Ungar and Mark 145). Undertaking the study on Hadza children, it is assumed that the hominids relied primarily on plant foods that were gathered. The type of human to have engaged in hunting and gathering was to Homo erectus. Due to…

Yaaku: 10 speakers, 1 language The Mukogodo, indigenous to the Mukogodo forest in Kenya, are one of the smallest tribes in the world consisting of only 5500 members. There language scarcer, with only Ten people speaking and only one completely fluent. The Yaaku is an example of how some languages struggle after cultural assimilation. Today the language sustains with one completely fluent speaker, an 84 year-old man, determined to save their dying language in order to preserve their culture…