Essays on Hunter Gatherers

Society alludes to set of people; who live respectively in a community, where they share same culture, norms, values, and beliefs. Societies have been categorized accordingly to their different stages of industrialization by sociologist. Emile Durkheim explicates society’s evolvement and its function through social norms...

The evolution of societal constructs has greatly changed throughout human history to support each society’s quality of life. Starting with small egalitarian bands and adapting into farming based redistributive stratified societies has greatly changed human civilization. Stratified societies began to rise and dominate to develop...

Culture There are various cultures that define the different societies that can be found around the world. Culture define the specific characteristics of a society, everything that varies from their behavior to the development of the people that inhabit in it. There are some cultures...

In 2009 Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending utilized their merit as professors of anthropology at the University of Utah to publish a book detailing the recent history of evolution. The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution argues that human evolution accelerated from civilization...

The Neolithic Revolution is called such because it marked the transition from small nomadic hunter gatherer people to larger, more permanent, horticultural settlements. It began approximately 10,000 years ago, people learned to cultivate crops instead of relying solely on nature to provide them with all...

This essay analyzes two readings containing opposite positions about the Neolithic Revolution. In the reading “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race” by Jared Diamond, he believes that going from hunter-gathering to agriculture was a huge mistake. Diamond thinks that Hunter-gatherers had...

The current modern environment and society which we are living in is very different to the hunter-gatherer society in which people hunted for their food, in our modern society we don’t need to hunt for food anymore because we have people who do this for...

“Until about 12,000 to 11,000 years ago, when agriculture and animal domestication emerged in southwest Asia and in Mesoamerica, all peoples were hunters and gatherers. Their strategies have been very diverse, depending greatly upon the local environment; foraging strategies have included hunting or trapping big game, hunting or trapping smaller animals, fishing, gathering shellfish or insects, and gathering wild plant foods such...

Evolution has occurred for millions of years, throughout time humans have changed from ape to human and many other animals have as well such as horses, mice and birds but what does evolution mean, The Merriam-Webster dictions 2019 defines evolution as “descent with modification from...

Based upon my reading of “An Edible History Of Humanity” by Tom Standage, I learned many things — foods becoming a technology due to human intervention, hunter-gatherers being at a far more advantage than farmers themselves, the impact of domestication of plants and animals on...