Question

b)    When looking at the personal capabilities, a typical individual from a hunter-gatherer society is much stronger than an individual from a farming society. Why in the human history it was the case that the farmers eliminated the hunter-gatherers, but not the other way around? Explain. (3 points)

Answer 1

Abstract

A hunter-gatherer is a group of person's who live in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging collecting wild plants and pursuing wild animals.

Hunter-gatherer societies are different from agricultural societies and they rely mainly on domesticated species, although the boundaries between the two are not distinct.

Gradully there are changes happened into the nature of Hunting Society, Mainly after the invention of agriculture, The hunters  who did not changed themselves have been displaced or conquered by farming society.

There is a common misconception thatt huneter are starving for the food but reality is that hunter-gatherers are mostly well-fed.

The reason behind farmers eliminated the hunter-gatherers, but not the other way around

In the revolutionery ways Hunter- gatherer society adopted the profession of agriculter because agriculture is an efficient way to get more food for less work. Planted crops yield far more tons per acre than roots and berries

The real root cause behind this changes are that crops can be stored, and since it takes less time to pick food from a garden than to find it in the wild, agriculture gave us free time that hunter-gatherers never had.

Farming could support many more people than hunting instead of poorer quality of life that hunters usually live. Population densities of hunter-gatherers are rarely over one person per ten square miles, while farmers average 100 times.

If look the culture of society - Hunter-gatherers have to keep their children spaced at four-year intervals by infanticide and other means, since a mother must carry her toddler until it’s old enough to keep up with the adults.

In Contrast farm women don’t have that burden, they can and often do bear a child every two years.

Also hunter - gaterers prefer to live in forest instead of village or city, there is one miconception among this society is that for Example,It’s not clear that hunter-gatherers would have had any sense that that’s your field, so thet will leave that alone, or, this is their forest and they will stay here.

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