hunter gathers
1. Identify the benefits of both subsistence patterns. For Food foraging : they move as needed with hin a certain regin. They are competetive,they are in a small group, they regulate there population size.they divide up the labor by gendor. They all share food with one another. They porportion there food. And they are very terriotrial. As far as agriculture its food being produced. That uses more techniloquical such as tools and irrigation, fertilization. Crop cultivation is generaly substantial, meaning that you can use it for multiple things not just for eating. Such as that for trading and for medicine so it goes a long way.
2. Identify the costs (or disadvantages) of both subsistence patterns. (10 pts) it seems as though for gathers they trade and are in one civilization so they work together and share and trade for which what they need within there community. As far as argiculture, they are a higher technilocial so its seems as though you get more meaning not only trade for money or other things but its good for eatting and making medicine. So it goes along way. And the more advance that we become into more recources in order to make money, although there are takes and wages because you have people doing all the work so they want the best way to make more for the cheapest labor, were as to in a society they split up the needed labor.
3. Which subsistence pattern provides a healthier diet? Explain. I guess it really depends on hwo you look at things, from my point of view it depends. I guess they both have there own ways in order to be a healthy diet. (5 pts)
- Discuss why you think some human populations made the transition into agriculture? The reason that I believe that some human population have made the transition to argiculture is because of the money and or because we are so highly advance. Meaning that we want to make the most of what we have in the least chpeast way possible. Today we have some people that still grow and gather there food, very seldum people will hunt but there are some people that do, depending on where you live cause I believe it may be illegal in some areas, but other then that its just easier for people to buy it meanig food then to go and really do all the work. So I guess we have become lazier in a sense today
Part 2: Economics and Trade:
1. A prestige econmy. Creation of a surplus for the express purpose of gaining prestige through a publi display of wealth .
2. well you can trade for money or trade for other things such that of food or other things. Meaning that you are giong to socialy interact with another person and ask for something in return so you go somewhere to barter. You can meet different people and interact with them , make friends and learn different things.
3. well I mena maybe u get shorted or you dont get what you want, you can meet smone that out does you ro even someone that really might like. This is how I interpit it.
4. withing the time that we hae come along, we have really advanced in technical things. Which made it I guess easier for a person to produce what they need in order to obtain the certain things they want. It seems as thought with that we have a lot of different commidites that come from this
Trade is not necessarily a part of the hunter-gatherer subsistence process, so is not really a disadvantage. Can you think of other difficulties related to a foraging lifestyle? It's not clear if you are identifying costs of agriculture or benefits in the second part of that paragraph.
ReplyDeleteYou can argue that both subsistence methods have their dietary benefits, but you needed to back it up with supporting statements.
When we talk about why humans transitioned into food production (agricultural) methods, we are talking about a time at least 10,000 years ago, long before the use of money or before we were "advanced". You are still thinking too modern! What inspired our hunter-gather ancestors long ago to take steps to start domesticating plants and animals?
The question on the relationship between surplus and trade is much simpler than prestige. You can't trade unless you have extra resources that you don't need for yourself that you can trade for other goods.
A couple of general points:
Many of the discussions and assignments in this class will be discussing the development of traits and behaviors thousands of years ago in early cultures, not in modern times. You need to learn to think of early human behaviors and how they might have been long ago before our modern times, modern technology and modern behavior.
You have some very interesting ideas, but it can be difficult to appreciate them with the spelling and grammatical errors. I recommend careful editing and spell checking before posting so your readers and enjoy your ideas without that distraction.
You had an interesting perspective on economy and trade. You also were indecisive on which form was more healthier for a society, that was an interesting take, I guess both forms would be beneficial for health. I liked your answer on why society moved to agriculture, so it was the ever changing human instinct for a better life.
ReplyDeleteTo start off i really do sincerely apologize for the grammatical errors and if its difficult to read, but i am trying my best, i am a really fast typer and i have to multitask which includes watching my one year old daughter, since i dont have anyone else to watch her, as well as i do run it through a program but i guess it doesnt pick the errors up. I am trying my hardest to get better at this.
ReplyDeleteNow as far as answering your further questions i can think of other ways that living a foraging lyfe style can be difficult i that sometimes the food that they may need or catch may not be enough, and that the people in which that have to go out and hunt are gone from there families for quite sometime.
as for agriculture benefits: Some benefits for agriculture might be that things may be really overly produced as we can easily get it, and it's an easy way to begin trading to different cultures. Many people can keep all of their produce for themselves, never obligated to share. There for we would assume then people wont get hungry but then we can also argue with that statement alone, since we do have people today in this world who are starving.
a a surlus substiance benefit would be a healthier diet because not only do they get vitamins from the various plants and seeds that they gather, but the meat is a source of protein.
yes as far as trade, thats the point that i was trying to get accross that you may have extra and want something else so u trade in order to get what you want. i am sorry that the way that i precive things and explain them dont come out right.
i am carefully trying my best to edit this i really hope that everyone can understand it.
Thank you for your response.
DeleteI liked how you mentioned that you can gain friendships as a result of trading. I was just seeing as just working and surviving. Vert good point! Something i failed to mention on my post.
ReplyDelete