Hunters And Gatherers

Question: how did the knowledge that people had developed as hunters/gatherers help them in becoming farmers and help? its from the noelithic learned to farm.

Answer: The book Blood Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond examines that very topic, in depth. A very intersting read.

Question: What are the pros and cons of hunters and gatherers vs. farmers? This is for a research paper, so whatever you give me, please I need citing, and it cant be something you googled, this is a 250 level course. I need to compare and contrast hunters and gatherers vs farmers, lets debate each side

Answer: If you need an actual citation, then you'll have to get a book. From my anthropology class decades ago, the HG were mobile, had primitive societies and lived off the land by chance. The men primarily hunted while women primarily gathered. The gathering was by far the more successful so the women kept the clan alive. The meat scored by the hunters was supplemental to the diet but not primary to it. Because these types of people tent to be migrant, the societies did not develop complexity. Farmers on the other hand are geographically fixed which allowed the gradual build up of a more complex society, farmers bartering with other specialties for goods allowing for free trade and more complex market place. Farmers grow more than they can use and the excess is a form of currency whether sold and profits used elsewhere or for direct barter.

Question: What is a better game, the original Carcassonne or Carcassonne hunters and gatherers? I've played carcassonne hunter and gatherers, but I've never played the original game with towns and roads. I know the original has a lot of expansions, too. Both games are the same idea too right? What is a better buy?

Answer: As a sales representative for Rio Grande Games and as an instructor, I can tell you from experience that Hunters & Gatherers is the easiest version of Carcassonne to teach because it has the fewest rules and restrictions. H&G has no expansions. However, anyone who is familiar with any version of Carcassonne will be confortable with any variation. Enjoy the game!

Question: Advantage of hunters and gatherers over agriculture? What is the advantage that hunters and gatherers have that agriculture societies don't have? and vice versa?

Answer: Hunter gatherer societies can move whenever weather, food or other conditions don't suit them.

Question: what role did the food supply play in shaping the nomadic life of hunters-gatherers and the settled life famer?

Answer: It really was when people began to keep cows - yes, cows - that they were able to leave the nomadic life and settle into communities. Cows could eat almost anything and survive, so they were able to settle where people wanted to settle, whether by a river, ocean, lake, pond, or somewhere inland. Cows could even survive various climates. I learned this when I investigated cows. Yes, I investigated cows. I did that because it struck me how much of my life I owed to them and how much I liked them. I got to know some of then at The Brookfield Zoo in suburban Chicago and I just loved them. They have very sweet breath from the hay they eat and I love the softness of their muzzles. Also, they have distinct personalities and are very loyal acquaintances. I got meat, milk, cheese, furniture and shoes from them all my life so I felt obligated to know something about them. After I did that, I stopped eating them - altogether. My choice. Anyway, the lovely cow allowed humans to settle in one place and form communities for protection and ease of meeting their needs. Voila!

Question: Help with my Anthropology thesis: We could have been better as hunters and gatherers? Okay, I have to get my thesis within 24 hrs, so I can start with the paper, time is going. So what do you think about this: We were (could have been) better as hunters and gatherers. Please suggest something around that line. also if you have Research tools for it, please help with it. Thanks. please don't hesitate to email me for more question, I need help

Answer: We did well enough to get ourselves where we are today...

Question: How did hunters and gatherers live before the Neolithic Revolution? WHat would a community be like for them? This is concerning the Neolithic Revolution topic.

Answer: We can surmise that prehistoric hunter gatherer communities probably lived a lot like surving hunter gatherer communities do in modern times. In hunter gatherer communities the men generally hunt for game, while the women and children gather nuts, berries, roots, eggs, edible insects etc. Hunter gatherer communities are usually fairly small scale, numbering from 25 to occasionally more than 100 people. There is very little specialisation of labor, except by age and sex, and no seperate economic grouops such as specialist craftsmen. Authority exists on a very modest scale only and is invested in family heads and ephemeral leaders. Religion has no seperate existence; cult practice is part of toal family and band activity. It is a much easier way of life than farming, requiring far less hard work. People in hunter gatherer communities have plenty of lesiure time to spend talking, singing, dancing, playing games etc.

Question: Carcassonne- Should I buy the standard game or Hunters & Gatherers? I'm thinking of buying my first Carcassonne game and I want to know if you guys would recommend getting the original version or Hunters & Gatherers. My friends have never played Carcassonne but I've tried it a few times as a computer game and I think we would be fine starting off with an expansion, or whatever hunters and gatherers is. What is Hunters and Gatherers by the way? Edit, I know now that H&G is stand-alone. FYI I'm not planning on buying expansions if I get the original game.

Answer: The basic gameplay of Hunters and Gatherers is very similar. You still draw a tile each turn and choose whether to place your meeple on it. Hunters and Gatherers adds a few more options. For example, in H&G you have forests instead of cities. Some forest tiles also show gold nuggests. If you complete a forest tile with a gold nugget, you get to draw from a set of special bonus tiles and place the bonus tile; these are slightly better than normal tiles. Instead of roads, it has rivers which show different amounts of fish, which are broken by lakes. Fishers score points for number of fish as well as the length of the river. In addition, you can place a fishing hut on a lake, which will score for all the fish in connected rivers. H&G does not have an equivalent to cloisters, which is probably good since they tended to give a lot of really easy points. Fields in H&G have animals in them, and hunters (the equivalent of farmers) score based on the animals. Some fields have tigers, which drive animals away - a good way to reduce an opponent's field! Fields tend to be more manageable in size and not as high scoring as they do in regular Carcassonne. In my opinion, this is a good thing, as they dominate the original game too much. While we have both, my girlfriend and I never play original Carcassonne anymore; we far prefer H&G. Hope that helps!

Question: Over time why did people change from hunters and gatherers to farmers?

Answer: Farming was less work to generate enough food to live. It meant that instead of travelling to gather grain etc, or the uncertainty and unpredictability of hunting, food was always available (aside from natural disasters). Farming was also more efficient so that fewer people could produce enough food for an entire settlement. This gave other members the time to specialise in the production of other items. The change would have not happened quickly, so that there would be some food produced by agriculture while other food was obtained by hunting and gathering. As skills and techniques developed more and more food items would be produced by agriculture.

Question: Hunters-gatherers of early Homo Sapiens ? I'm having trouble finding out the advantages of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle of early homo sapiens. What did humankind gain and lose in becoming agricultural, urbanized, and civilized? Thanks for any input! (real answers please)

Answer: It's one of those things-the more adept you become,the more adept you HAVE to become. For instance,the Hunter-Gatherer...mooch off and grab a huge arm-full of fruit,maybe splat a small creature for the pot if fortune smiles-that's him done for the week. as the family grows/expands,it becomes necessary to provide more often. Tries nurturing plants rather than breaking them,as food is now more necessary,more often. Has to fashion items to assist with the task,as the volume is becoming greater. Ditto with meat,trys corralling a herd rather than hunting 1-at-a-time. So,now needs tools,equipment,and time,just to eat the same food he ate for a few hours effort per week. Also,now there is a need to KEEP those tools,and MAINTAIN them. This is becoming tiresome. Plus,there is now a need to PROTECT those tools/herd/crop,AS WELL as rending them,picking/slaughtering,farming etc. So now consumerism rears it's head,along with full-time working at the agriculteral necessities of keeping a family's food-supply safe from predators and blights. So now possessionism come into the equasion,as does the reality of tools becoming weapons to protect 'Mine'. So,the Hunter-Gatherer becomes a social animal,of [that word again] necessity,to form communes against predators of all types,to give mutual assistance in the agricultural effort,and to protect families. but,to the strongest goes the best,so competition within the commune to outstrip one another becomes rampant-plus there are always the coat-tail hangers,the opportunists,and the thieves. Tumble trhis lot into a mixer for a few millenia-hey Presto, 21st Century 'civilised' man!! [so,has anything REALLY changed??]

Question: how did hunter gatherers meet their basic needs? also please get info from websites and post the links :) i have a project and need help :) how did the hunter gathers meet their 3 basic needs food, clothing, and shelter also describe the challenges they faced.

Answer: Hunting and gathering.

Question: What factors lead to the “triumph” of food producers over hunter/gatherers? Question for the book Guns, Germs and Steel

Answer: I haven't done any research on the subject, so I'm just gonna go by instinct. It seems to me that if a group of people (clan, tribe, etc.) raises cows, sheep or other livestock, then they don't have to go looking for an animal to kill and eat. Hunting can be dangerous. A hunter could be killed or injured by his quarry, or even by someone else in the hunting party. Hunting is very much hit or miss. Imagine walking for hours, maybe even days, before spotting a deer. If you miss with your arrow, or spear, or rock it will run away and leave you without a meal for who knows how long. Also, if the group has edible plants growing in a garden, then they don't have to search for them. They're already available. I would imagine that, in order to raise livestock, you have to keep them contained. It would be necessary to build fences, walls or perhaps hedges to keep them from wandering off. Having a readily availble food source mean that permanent settlements can be built. This would give rise to architecture. Early city-states such as Babylon would not have been built if its inhabitants had to leave every time they got hungry. That's all I can think of.

Question: Why the obsession with hunter gatherers? A lot of times, when I ask 'why are men like this' or 'why won't women do that', I get the answer 'hunter gatherers'. But this confuses me... 1. Human ancestry goes way back before hunter gathering, and has gone way beyond it - why is this one era so important? 2. If all our instincts are hunter gatherers, why aren't women with hairy legs and saggy boobs considered attractive? I've heard that people look for signs of fertility in a woman, surely there could be no better sign than a bunch of stretch marks indicating previous pregnancy?

Answer: It all goes back to hunter-gatherer societies. Many of the members of those societies had a genetic pre-disposition to being obsessed with hunter-gatherer societies, and those who weren't were stoned to death before they could procreate by those who were.

Question: what kind of music did the hunter-Gatherers listen to? I have a history project that i am doing and i need to know a bunch of questions that need to be answered for the Hunter-Gatherer communities, Neolithic Farming communities, and the Mesopotamian civilizations. What kinds of art does this community have? What kinds of music does this community have? Does this community have a religion? if so describe. Does this community have any kinds of education? if so, describe. What kind of architecture does this community have? And i can't find anything about any of this. PLEASE HELP

Answer: I was surprised when I Googled Hunter Gatherers! The first click got this: http://www.rickriordan.com/hunter_gatherer_lifestyle.htm Tons of info for you! Hope this helps. Good Luck!

Question: Were the Cherokee Indians mostly farmers or hunter-gatherers? I have a school project on Cherokee foods, and I'm going to be asking some questions. This is my first one.

Answer: The answer depends on what period of time you refer to. Long before DeSoto came to the New World the people who would someday be called “Cherokee” were primarily hunter-gatherers. They also farmed corn, tobacco, squash, pumpkins, and sunflowers at an early date. As the Europeans moved into their lands and interrupted their way of life, it shifted to more of a mix of farming, hunting and fishing. After the Trail of Tears, around 1838, they were primarily farmers. Cherokee Tribal Member

Question: Hunter-Gatherers- Are you thankful that's its only once a week to Tesco and not endlessly chasing wild pigs? I get enough stick if I come home with the wrong loaf. Imagine coming back with a few berries and a water vole. Nightmare.

Answer: aw, are we feeling unappreciated today, Mountain Man?

Question: Paleo-Indians were hunter-gatherers who lived by hunting animals and gathering wiild plants?

Answer: Of course the were, and not only Paleo-Indians but their descendants (Indians) as well.

Question: How did cavemen and hunter-gatherers who were near-sighted survive? I can barely even find my shoes w/out my ? glasses. Let alone run after wild buffalo , deer, or wildebeasts. I don't see how it's possible to even find your home cave if you're a near-sighted cave man. Did their friends kill them because they were a burden to the tribe because they didn't understand what bad eyesight was back then? They probably thought they were lazy or stupid, and not pulling their load, right?

Answer: They probably found other things to do closer to the cave. Found firewood, set up a defensive perimeter, tended the children, etc. The survival of the fittest mentality didn't really come about until the late 18th century. Prior to then tribes had more of a communal mentality and the old were looked to for their wisdom and guidance.

Question: what does the list in column a tell you about the lives of hunters and gatherers?

Answer: This question would probably work better is you actually included the list in column A.

Question: Where did the hunter gatherers live and how long ago did they live?

Answer: Very true! There have been hunters and gatherers as long as there have been humans (and longer, of course, since the hunting and gathering subsistence mode isn't unique to hominids), and there are still many groups of hunters and gatherers today. You may want to refine this question with a comment/addition to make your intentions clear. Are you, by any chance, asking when hunting and gathering first gave way to domestication of cereal crops and (eventually) sedentary village life? If so, then that seems to have taken place around 10,000 BC in the Middle east (see link below). Before that, it was all hunters and gatherers, all the time. _____