Saturday, September 17, 2011
Foraging Societies
Having knowledge of foraging societies is important because it shows how humans evolved and adapted to their surroundings. The timeline it gives shows anthropologists how new tools and new survival skills helped the society keep going. Because there were so many foraging societies in the past worldwide it helps compare and contrast several cultures or the past. Also, with today's foraging societies we get to see the traditions that were past down from their ancestors and understand a different way of thinking that doesn't involve so much technology.
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I agree that having knowledge of these societies is very important. Humans know how to learn and adapt to their surroundings. Learning survival skills and making new tools is an important quality for a society to have.
ReplyDeleteThe various foraging societies really do give us a better idea of how those socities compare because they are all over the world. Anthropologists can get a better idea of older traditions since the evidence is found from what the foraging societies left behind. Although their technology wasn't as nearly advanced as today's, they still managed to improve their hunting and foraging skills from what they built.
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