Hunter-gatherers

believed by people that the Hunter Gatherers, people who hunt and physically work for their food and resources, 73,000 years ago had bad morals and could not follow simple rules. This is proven incorrect by the facts Katherine Milton gave in her article about her time spent in the Brazilian Amazon and the people who live there and still live with a Hunter Gatherer society today. Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a philosopher from France who made allegations about what the Hunter Gatherer society was…

civilizations, but medicine has developed as a direct result of the disease, and we are now able to fight diseases that otherwise would kill a hunter-gatherer. Civilization also may have turned us “soft,” and greed certainly exists, however, for those who are fortunate, life has become something amazing. We are able to receive education on topics unfathomable to hunter-gatherers, can explore most of the world without much fear, and many are even making massive efforts to aid those in need in…

Although the hunter is normally regarded to be the more dominant of the two, based on my experiences and values, I believe I am more of a gatherer. I consider a hunter to be inherently comfortable with putting their own life at risk to accomplish a task or achieve a goal. A gatherer has the same goal and achievement mindset of a hunter, but while also considering their safety, and those around them. Earlier in my life, I had some of the characteristics of a hunter. I was careless and set on my…

for humans. We will start with Hank. (HG) There are many positive aspects of the hunter and gatherer way of life. Hunter and Gatherers had an easier life than we do now. They didn’t have as much stress, they were healthier, they were able to move around freely and there was less sexual inequality. Jared Diamond, who wrote the article “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race” stated that hunter-gatherers worked much less than farmers.…

The transition from hunters and gatherers to agriculture began around 10,000 B.C.E. which alternated the way humans lived; this change became irreversible. It’s been debated that the transition to agriculture was caused by the lifestyle of hunters and gatherers being too risky, however the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert proved this to be false. They survived by women gathering fruits and nuts such as the mongongo nut which was never scarce and the men…

looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.” This statement is very relatable to the situation mankind was in before the neolithic age. Farming was a mystery to mankind, most men and women were hunter-gatherers and did not understand the value behind or how to farm. Typically the men hunted while the women gathered, this gave both genders had a similarly equal role in their lives. The daily life for mankind had always included hunting animals and…

ago, and from its re-appearance about 0.2 million years ago. It remained the only way of collecting food until the end of the Mesolithic period about 10,000 years ago. Beginning in transition between the Middle to Upper Paleolithic period, some hunter-gatherers groups began to specialize, concentrating on hunting a smaller selection of larger game and gathering a smaller selection of food. This newly specialized type of work also involved creating specific tools such…

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…

For my second article, of assignment two, I chose “Disease and Death at Dr. Dickson’s Mounds” by Alan H. Goodman and George J. Armelagos, and the article from the Bradford Foundation I am comparing it to is “The Cochimi Culture on the Baja California Peninsula of Mexico.” I found it fascinating that both articles talked of disease and death but both came from completely opposite reasons. What I mean by that is that the artifacts show that the people of Dickson Mounds came from being farmers and…

sophistication and decoration on it, as well as many animals used to enhance the pillars. The temple builders at Gobekli Tepe were hunter gatherers, or foragers, and hunter gatherers are typically a hundred people or so living together, and they had to move around quite often because they had to look for food to sustain. Schmidt explains that usually hunter gatherers cannot build such a big, permanent complex structure, as well as maintaining “a separate class of priests and craft workers,…