Anthropology

Anthropology Hunting and Gathering VS Agriculture From the early prehistoric society until now, we often heard the word “adaptation”, which means the process of changing something or changing our behavior to deal with new situations. The ways people adjust their natural environment varies according to time, place, and tribe. Foraging is common way of adaptation that people uses for most of human history; however because of the population pressure, some people adopt agriculture to fulfill their need. This essay, will discuss the positive and negative aspects of life in hunting and gathering societies compared to the agricultural societies based on Martin Harris’ article “Murders in Eden” and Jared Diamond’s article “The Worst Mistake in the History of Human Race.” Hunting and gathering is the longest-lasting lifestyle for most of human history. In addition to their way of life, hunter-gatherers are often regarded as “nasty, brutish, and short” (Diamond 114). Progressivists societies, need, hunting, gathering, way, people, hunter-gatherers, human, hours, history, agriculture, week, time, short, protein, per, often, nasty, life, less, however, food, environment, changing, brutish, because, aspects, article, agricultural, adopt, adaptation, 114, worst, workloads, workdiamond, work