Hunter Gathers Essay

Food supply of hunter gathers was very broad. They ate whatever was seasoning available, making their diet very broad. What hunter gatherers ate, they had to go out and get. By going out and gathering what they ate 80-90 percent of their calories were burned from what they already ate. By hunting it gave them a balance of what calories they were burning. Women were the ones that did most of the gathering and the men did most of the hunting. As a group, hunter gathers, all knew there surroundings and knew the dangers and what foods were around them. By doing most of the work to get the food, there wasn't as many people living in these groups which made it easier to feed everyone. As agriculturist they only harvested their food once or twice
Agriculturist lived in houses called mud-brick dwellings. The living spaces of these houses were on the flat roof top. Animals were kept close to the houses. Many of the early agriculturist had never lived closely together so they had to learn how to live in a different way. Living like this created many problems, one problem was that there was a lot polluting in one's living space. Living in one place also made it easier for the agriculturist to grow in population. Hunter gathers had to keep their families small on the other hand, moving from time to time was easier when there was less people. Having less people hunter gatherers never had to deal with waste like that because they were constantly moving from one place to another and didn't have as many people to be crammed with. They could stay clean and healthy by moving frequently. This made the living conditions of agriculturist very unhygienic. Hunter gatherers living conditions was never permanent. Which is why they had small portions of food so that they didn't have carry everything with them when they moved. By living in mobile living conditions hunter gathers never had a need to have rankings. On the other hand agriculturist needed