evolutionary psychology. As the hunter of a hunter/ gatherer society‚ men were faced with complex life threatening problems that needed solving on a daily basis. For example‚ killing for food. The hunters‚ used all their mental capabilities to come up with the answers to successfully killing animals day after day‚ were clearly the most intelligent. Hunters were the high status males of their day‚ where as all women were in charge of gathering and raising kids. These hunters were the most eligible mates
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life revolved (Blainey 2000‚ p 410). Families had very little assets‚ with a peasant perhaps lucky enough to own a cow and a small portion of land. (Blainey 2000‚ p 410). Until approximately 1200 years ago all humans were hunters and gatherers the term hunters and gatherers
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more sedentary. In order to continuously tend fields with constant attention‚ people had to settle down. This turn to settlement rather than nomadism of hunter-gatherer groups introduced many new focal points such as identity‚ ethnicity‚ and ancestry. These factors led way to the flourishing of religion‚
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Choice: Circle the “letter” of the best answer. (2 points each) 1. Which social group uses advanced technology to grow crops? D a. industrialists b. foragers (hunters/gatherers) c. agriculturalists d. horticulturalists 2. Which social group (s) organize their lives around the lives of their animals? C a. foragers (hunters/gatherers) b. industrialists c. pastoralists d. a and c e. all of the above 3. Which social group is on the constant move for subsistence? C a. horticulturalists
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Time Period How do people find food in this time period? What are some common things people do for a living in this time period? Why do people live where they live in this time period? Hunter and Gatherers They followed herds of animals and gathered food from the earth. Hunters and gatherers of nuts‚ berries‚ and other types of food. They follow herds of animals. Agricultural Revolution They farmed grain and domesticated animals. Farmers They lived in places that had good soil for crops. Complex
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because the encounters with unfamiliar human contact can trigger negative intentions. Variation of different factors‚ such as food sources and land type‚ molds together to form a lifestyle. As said in the book‚ there were two distinct groups‚ the hunter-gatherers and the farmers.
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These women may have an advantage staying with their families instead of marrying. Behavior of children living in the hunter-gatherer groups did not have much deviation between their genders. Children usually are not expected to learn their roles until much later when they are almost teenagers. Girls are generally the first to take on tasks because their mother’s usually want the extra assistance‚ and they will soon be expected to take on the responsibilities of her role in the !Kung group. Girls
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Major Themes of Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel As Jared Diamond examines the major factors of a great civilization after being posed by Yali’s question‚ he comes to an astounding realization. It is that Asians and Europeans came to be powerful not because they were smarter or better than other civilizations‚ but because they were luckier in terms of geography. Diamond focuses on the idea that the success of a society is not catalyzed by genetics or natural superiority‚ but instead by these two major
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attain equality in many areas of the culture‚ men still obtain a certain degree of dominance. Friedl argues that "the source of male power among hunter-gatherers lies in their control of a scarce‚ hard to acquire‚ but necessary nutrient-animal protein" (263). This is proven by the people of the BaMbuti since they do in fact rely on the hunter-gatherer method which is a process where the people depend on wild plants and animals for subsistence. Although the women of the BaMbuti culture contribute
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to 2000 B.C.. Archaic settlers had somewhat of a hunter gatherer ideology‚ but began taking an interest in agriculture. One of the reasons for this new interest in agriculture was the fact that large game had now become extinct. (Stearns‚ 1992) With this new interest in agriculture‚ settlers in the Archaic
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