were few specialized occupations. The very first occupation was that of hunter-gatherer. ------------------------------------------------- Hunter-Gatherer Hunter-gatherer societies demonstrate the strongest dependence on the environment of the various types of preindustrial societies. As the basic structure of human society until about 10‚000–12‚000 years ago‚ these groups were based around kinship or tribes. Hunter-gatherers relied on their surroundings for survival—they hunted wild animals and
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This was the heart of his theory as he depicted agriculture as a curse suffered by mankind‚ to bring itself to its current place in civilization. Jared Diamond based his argument around points such as studies on the welfare of current hunters and gatherers‚ the varying detriments of agriculture—as discovered by Paleopathologists in remains of ancient man—and their affects on the pioneers of agriculture‚ and the practice of making women “Beasts of Burden” to show inequality between the sexes.
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Melvin Konnor reveal the diet of Paleolithic ancestors‚ nutritional variations that accompanied the advancement of agriculture‚ and common illnesses that were frequent in the West but not in hunter-gatherers. As anthropologists have discovered much evidence that early humans were once primarily scavengers and gatherers of plants‚ much valuable information can be revealed about early history. Based on their studies‚ anthropologist firmly believe that the methods of producing and gathering food have considerably
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and sexual inequality‚ the disease and despotism making agriculture a big mistake. Jared Diamond has a lot of concrete evidence to support his claim. For example Diamond states‚ “ There are three reasons agriculture was bad for health. First hunter-gatherers enjoyed a varied diet‚ while farmers obtained most of their food from one or a few starchy crops. The Farmers gained cheap calories at the cost of poor nutrition. Second‚ because of dependence on a limited number of crops‚ farmers ran the risk
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identify any copying/pasting (i.e.‚ “plagiarism”) from the Internet.] 1. Technology & Survival: Do you think that digital technology in our own day (the “Information Age”) is as essential to survival as stone technology was in Paleolithic (“Hunter-Gatherer”) times? Explain. {Note: One of the keys to this discussion in the word “survival‚” and it helps to define precisely what we mean when we use that word. For example‚ would we actually DIE without our computers and cell phones‚ or would our cultural
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others because of the environmental differences that were present in the continents where they resided. Factors such as wildlife‚ climate‚ and the types of resources presented in an area have dramatically affected the growth and development of hunter-gatherer groups into villages‚ and eventually‚ nations. In places where the environmental conditions were not ideal‚ the inhabitants were not able to advance as far as other civilizations. Diamond disproved
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longer feed the hunters‚ for the giant hairy mammoths and caribou died out. The wandering men then had to change their ways and three types of livelihood
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1 Big Geography and the Peopling of the Earth I. Hunter Gather Life i. Hunter gatherers use fires to cook their food‚ so it was more edible and easier to swallow and digest. ii. Hunter gatherers used stone tools for most of their chores such as kill animals‚ harvest plants‚ clear brush‚ and start fire to cook food. iii. Kinship groups tried to make the population grow and start an early agricultural movement. II. Personal Reflection Questions
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were still living as farmers or even still as hunter/gatherers with stone tools Empires with iron tools conquered or exterminated tribes with stone tools… but what lead up to this? Until the end of the last Ice Age around 11‚000 BC‚ all humans on all continents were still living as Stone Age hunter/gatherers…different rates of development caused inequalities of AD 1500 Aboriginal Australians and Native Americans remained Stone Age hunter/gatherers Most Eurasian peoples and many peoples of the
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the longest-lasting lifestyle for most of human history. In addition to their way of life‚ hunter-gatherers are often regarded as "nasty‚ brutish‚ and short" (Diamond 114). Progressivists also suggested our hunter-gatherer ancestors adopt agriculture because of "its efficient way to get more food for less work"(Diamond 114). However‚ as archaeologists observe in some aspects of their lives‚ hunter-gatherers societies are not necessarily "nasty‚ brutish‚ and short." Some issues that we need to compare
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