Ethnographic_Analogy_Of_The_!Kung_San_People

Ethnographic Analogy Of The !Kung San People Creating an ethnographic analogy for the !Kung San people compared to the Cro-Magnon is not an easy task. Some tasks are harder to over come, such as disconnecting oneself from cultural perspectives. But, more importantly, comparing a culture that is gone, and it’s only remains exist in a tangible form with no evidence of higher-order or abstract thinking to a culture that is alive and has plenty of evidence of abstract and higher-order thinking. The Upper Paleolithic was an age of technological innovation, anatomically modern humans invented new and specialized tools. In the Magdalenian period, spear throwing was used, and there is evidence that the bow and arrow may have been first used in this period. (Turnbaugh: 330) Since much of what the !Kung San uses is shared umungst themselves, there is little evidence of material wealth. (Gajdos) The men hunt with wooden bows and arrows tipped with poison. This is important, because it shows the ingenuity that a contemporary culture can have, and the versatility involved in tool use. It could indicate how Cro-Magnon used arrows. More importantly, the !Kung San men provide the tools for women. (“The Khoisan”) This shows a semi-hierarchal society, which could be san, kung, khoisan, tools, evidence, culture, cro-magnon, group, religious, much, women, record, one, gajdos, found, contemporary, been, abstract, thinking, themselves, suggest, spirits, society, skin, sculptures, people, over, outer, modern, men, live, language, important, horse, features