Hunting+&+gathering

Hunting and gathering is the practice of old nomadic tribes in which they hunted and gathered for their food rather than through farming. Men and women were considered equals, while the men hunted and the women gathered their food. Problems arose such as a shortage of food and depletion of wild game. These kinds of civilizations could not support large populations for they were always on the move from place to place in order to catch new game and find wild plants. Populations grew slowly because families could not support more than one child each, so the mothers breast fed their children for as much as five years. On the other hand, workdays were much shorter than those in farming societies, sometimes as little as 3 hours, which allowed for more leisure time. Hunter-gatherers eventually developed crude tools and slowly developed spoken languages. The hunter-gatherer age was defined by the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age. As agriculture developed along with the Neolithic Revolution, hunting and gathering societies began to settle down into farming societies with a civilized culture, though some remained because of prohibitive geographical location and a myriad of other factors.



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Created by: Hannah Hollon 8/29/08 Edited by: Dirk Gadsden (September 2, 2008) Edited by: Anna Mack (September 3, 2008)

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