Before the agricultural revolution, all human survived and maintain the lifestyle of gathering and hunting. A hunter-gatherer is an individual who lived in a community where all of the food, or mostly is gained by foraging (pursuing wild animals and collecting wild plants).
EXPLANATION:
There are some characteristics of hunter-gatherer society:
1. Habitat and population
Most of the hunter-gatherers were semi-nomadic or nomadic. They lived in provisional settlements. Nomadic communities typically built shelters using temporary building materials, or they might use shelters of natural rock, where they were obtainable. Some hunter-gatherer cultures, like the indigenous peoples on the Yakuts and the Pacific Northwest Coast, survived in prosperous environments that enabled them to settle or semi-settle. One group, Chumash, had the highest documented population density of any recognized hunter and gatherer community about 21.6 people per square mile.
2. The social and economic structure
Hunter-gatherers had an egalitarian social code, even though settled hunter-gatherers (such as those living in the Northwest Coast of North America) were an exclusion to this rule. Almost all of the African hunter-gatherers were egalitarian, with women unevenly as powerful and influential as men. Karl Marx described this socio-economic structure as primitive communism.
The egalitarianism is typical of human hunters and gatherers who are certainly not total, but it is striking when seen in the context of evolution. One of the two nearest primate relatives of humans, chimpanzees, by no means egalitarian, formed themselves in a hierarchy often dominated by alpha males. So great is the difference from human hunter-gatherers that many palaeoanthropologists put forward that resistance to domination is a key factor driving the evolutionary evolution of human language, consciousness, social organization, and kinship.
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KEYWORDS : hunter-gatherer, hunting-gathering
Subject : History
Class : 10-12
Sub-Chapter : Early Civilization
