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The transition from the traditional hunter gatherer societies, in to an agriculture based living system, has allowed humans to increase their population size, putting strains on the Earth’s environment. Agriculture has also brought along with it a decrease in women’s roles in the community, while also bringing about a class system where the wealthy rule, and were the weak and poor obey. As humans began to domesticate more plants and animals, they settled in permanent areas. The Change from hunter gatherer benefited few, but had dire consequences for the earth and groups with in it. One such consequence was the population increase, which has lead to major issues throughout history, and one that has ties to current global issues.

Approximately 2.5 million years ago humans lived as hunter-gatherers that would move in bands, later on, they would turn into the great civilization of the ancient world due to better technique and a more organized society. Starting from the neolithic age which consists of hunter-gatherers. There were basically early modern humans. Hunter-gatherers had populated a lot of the earth by 30,000 years ago, continued the hunter and gathering way of life. They would feed off of wild plants and animals and move from one location to another. They would also use the fur of their killings as clothes. In a hunting and gatherings economy, they would move from one location to another to secure their food supply. Hunter-gatherers were very self-sufficient.

Whether mistakes are minor and forgotten within a day or so drastic they are remembered for years’ mistakes are one thing members of society all have in common. Jared Diamond, Professor of Geography and Physiology at the University of California, mentions an important mistake in his essay, The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race. Diamond discusses agriculture versus the hunter-gatherer method of acquiring food. He exclaims that agriculture is the worst mistake human race has made. Additionally, Diamond introduces two perspectives towards agriculture. A person may take a revisionist standpoint and “advocate revision of a system, theory, etc” (OED). Oppositely, a person may take a progressivist standpoint and become involved in

Agricultural societies allow for a greater population density, than hunter-gatherer societies. With a greater population of people, not everyone has to farm; therefore people can ‘specialize’ in other areas such as political organization. Also, people can focus on gun, steels, and ships other than just

They made transitions such as moving property ownership from females to males, using modern farming technologies, sending children to school, and attending church. These tribes soon became known as the Five Civilized Tribes, but ultimately, they were unable to assimilate due to the issue of land ownership. Communal property was incompatible with absolute property because the Americans believed that occupied land was not equivalent to owning the land. As a result, Southerners re-divided counties in the South, making it easier for them to gain legal title on Native American land . Southerners also formed the basis of a new Indian class. Sons of plantation masters impregnated Indian women and their mixed children were able to sit on tribunal councils. The Southern master class used these mixed-Indians as their proxies. Sitting on tribunal councils, mixed council members were bilingual, familiar with both societies, and had major political power that they used to transform Indian society1. Mixed-Indians were involved in Indian wars, such as one involving warriors of the Creek, Cherokee, and Choctaw tribes against the Chickasaw warriors in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend¹.

Early agricultural societies differed from those of the Paleolithic era in many different ways. They were two similar and different things. The Paleolithic era was more towards not staying in one specific area. They wanted to follow where their food went. In the agricultural societies, many people leaned towards being a lot less nomadic. They stayed in one spot and decided to farm for food.

The first beginning we had hunter and gatherers, and that became something that everybody started doing. People would use resources around them, and they would not stay in permanent settlements. Than a new life began and it was called Emergence of Agriculture. People know started having permanent settlements, the population has became bigger, and their health might be becoming shaky. These changes might have been better or worse.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to assimilate our hunter-gatherer ancestors? Well here is how it would go: We would wander around until we found a food source and then we would see how many people it could sustain. When it couldn't feed anymore people, we would move on and find a new food source. It’s simple. It’s easy. You only have to go in search of food when you need it. It’s practical. I agree that farming was the worst mistake in the history of the human race because it led to the division of social classes and it had a negative effect on human health.

The group I will tell you about is an early hunter-gatherer group that migrated to North America from Eurasia and ended up near the site of Blackwater Draw in New Mexico approximately 11,000 years ago. They used a tool technology called the Clovis industry. I will bring you into light of how they arrived at their main site or base camp. How they lived there, who they lived with, what they hunted and how they hunted it, also what their social networks were like.

the Native culture. Some may argue that it was for the purpose of creating civilized people out of Native Americans, but, who said they weren’t civilized in the first place? Native Americans were suffering after being removed from their reservations into the boarding schools, and their overall goal of destructing the Native culture.

Due to the dependence upon naturally occurring sources of food, which are not always found in the same abundance as in agricultural cultivation, hunter-gatherers are usually found in bands of less than fifty people and in areas with low population density. This subsistence strategy

Forming villages and communities thousands of years ago, probably was one of the best decisions that people back then ever made. Before societies, humans were hunters and gatherers, they would run around and try to get to hunt animal and sleep and just repeat that cycle until they die, an aspect of that was shown in the cartoon “Join the Neolithic Revolution comic” a hunter and a gatherer sad and feel bad that they did not have enough food. They felt it was amazing that you do not have to worry about hunting everyday and killing every single day for food when the guy from the village came to them and explained how villages work, also you can see him walking with a goat, which mean you do not have to kill them all, you can live with animals

What do you know about Hunter-Gatherers and the Mythology of the Market? John Gowdy’s paper says that the first way of life that was successful was started by the Hunter-Gatherers and was also very adapted to the economy for about 90% of our history until about 12,00 years ago. No matter how civilized and technological advancements that have taken place, the Hunter-Gatherer societies lived a fulfilling and rewarding life without them. They had a very prosperous way of life and a very sufficient diet. In their lifestyle, they had a lot of free time to play and do other activities. They had no specific leader, they only had temporary leaders, which included no discrimination based on gender. Hunter-Gatherer societies have a large variety

1. How might beer have influenced the transition from hunting and gathering to agricultural based societies?

How did early civilizations effectively develop and utilize early plants and vegetables to move from hunter-gatherers to agriculturists, and what were the impacts socially, politically, and technically? “Agriculture did not emerge from an untapped resource base or randomly distributed family or tribal units of Homo sapiens sapiens. It emerged as the result of efforts by highly organized ecologically canny communities composed of skilled hunter-gatherers.” In the beginning of what is considered burgeoning civilization, humanities ancestors were what were called hunter-gatherers. They moved from place to place, following the source of their food in order to survive the brutal aspects of early life. If they could not find food, or not find it in sufficient amount, they would starve and eventually die off. Thus, the only decision facing them was to relocate their tribes in order to better take advantage of the available game. As the second portion of their name implied, they were also considered gatherers, in which they subsisted on whatever grains and green vegetables or fruits they could find to eat. It was this kind of lifestyle which led to a smaller, tribal mindset in which you ate what you could, when you could. Over time this began to change, with the establishment of agricultural practices which allowed for availability of much needed crops and the decision of tribes to establish permanent communities, as well as the increase in both number of members and life terms.