The health of hunters and gatherers is very good compared to agriculturalists. They eat a lot of a different things in very small amounts and most all of them are natural. They also use gender specialization when hunting and gathering. Women do the gathering and men do …show more content…
the hunting. They can enjoy a life of leisure because due to the fact that they don't have to tend to crops all day. Whereas the health of agriculturalists was very bad at times. Agriculturalist all live very close together and they don't have a very diverse diet. So they don't get all of the positives that come with a diverse diet and them living closer together cause them to get more diseases.
Population of hunters and gatherers consists of a low one child per adult ratio, due to the fact of how much they move from place to place.
If they were to have large families like agriculturalists it would require more food and the more children there are the more care and time they take away from the hunting and gathering. Agriculturalists on the other hand are the exact opposite. The more kids there are means more people to work in the fields and help take care of the crops.
Due to the fact that hunters and gatherers move around a lot they don't have anything of value to other hunter and gatherers. Which means there isn't any theft going on because they gather their food when they need it, they don't keep it supplied somewhere, no they just get it when it is needed. They also don't own land seeing as how they are constantly moving around. Agriculturalists on the other hand own land and livestock. They are competing for space to grow their crops, and raises the livestock. This causes problems to arise like the stealing of livestock or crops.
Many aspects of the life of hunters and gatherers differ so much from the life of agriculturalists. Things like health, population, or how they place value on things. There are so many other parts to cover though. Like technology, environmental impact, or social problems and many more. They were two very different societies living very different lives, which would you
prefer?