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August 31, 2011 at 6:38 pm
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I know what hunting and gathering societies are, but i don’t know about the intensive. & i can’t find it anywhere ! help please with my question " what is the difference between hunting and gathering societies and intensive hunting and gathering societies" i’d like to know what the intensive is, but also anwer the original question. please be detailed, this is for AP world history. thanks ! (:
and please answer ASAP because it’s due tomorrow !
Maybe?
To understand how the Neolithic Revolution occurred it is necessary to understand the economic system it replaced. Until the Neolithic, and in most areas for a long time after, all humans engaged in an economic activity called "hunting and gathering" which is exactly what it sounds like—the acquiring of food by hunting wild animals and gathering wild plants. This system is called "food extraction" as opposed to "food production" by agriculture and pastoralism. Hunting and gathering is actually a very efficient system that much of the time produces ample food. The main disadvantages are an inability to maintain surpluses against bad times or for supplying non-food producers (craftsmen, leaders, etc) and the fact that it can only maintain (in most areas) a very low population density.
By comparison, agriculture and pastoralism, even in fairly primitive forms, provide large surpluses and can supply a much larger population per square mile. This allows a growth in population, an ability to store food against bad times and the maintenance of non-food producers who can specialize as craftsmen, warriors and leaders. These developments, in turn, allow for a more complex society and the possibility of urbanization. There are, however, drawbacks. Farmers, especially in ancient and medieval times, had to work much harder and thus had less leisure than hunter-gatherers. In essence, agriculture is much more labor intensive than hunting and gathering. Agriculture also led to a much greater dependence on a smaller range of foods, so there is evidence that early farmers were more malnourished than hunter-gatherers. So farmers could produce far more food (and thus could have more children) but the food was of lower nutritional quality.
http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/kushana/Neolithic.html
Here’s another MAYBE:
Between 8000 and 5000 B.C.E. some hunting-gathering groups developed more intensive techniques that permitted them to establish more sedentary settlements. In what is now central Russia, for example, groups were able to hunt wooly mammoths and supplement meat supplies with intensive gathering. The establishment of sedentary communities allowed intensive hunting and gathering groups to establish social stratification and commerce with other similar groups.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zO8gRX54d1gJ:occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/stearns_awl/chapter1/objectives/deluxe-content.html+intensive+hunting+and+gathering+societies&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com
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Maybe?
To understand how the Neolithic Revolution occurred it is necessary to understand the economic system it replaced. Until the Neolithic, and in most areas for a long time after, all humans engaged in an economic activity called "hunting and gathering" which is exactly what it sounds like—the acquiring of food by hunting wild animals and gathering wild plants. This system is called "food extraction" as opposed to "food production" by agriculture and pastoralism. Hunting and gathering is actually a very efficient system that much of the time produces ample food. The main disadvantages are an inability to maintain surpluses against bad times or for supplying non-food producers (craftsmen, leaders, etc) and the fact that it can only maintain (in most areas) a very low population density.
By comparison, agriculture and pastoralism, even in fairly primitive forms, provide large surpluses and can supply a much larger population per square mile. This allows a growth in population, an ability to store food against bad times and the maintenance of non-food producers who can specialize as craftsmen, warriors and leaders. These developments, in turn, allow for a more complex society and the possibility of urbanization. There are, however, drawbacks. Farmers, especially in ancient and medieval times, had to work much harder and thus had less leisure than hunter-gatherers. In essence, agriculture is much more labor intensive than hunting and gathering. Agriculture also led to a much greater dependence on a smaller range of foods, so there is evidence that early farmers were more malnourished than hunter-gatherers. So farmers could produce far more food (and thus could have more children) but the food was of lower nutritional quality.
http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/kushana/Neolithic.html
Here’s another MAYBE:
Between 8000 and 5000 B.C.E. some hunting-gathering groups developed more intensive techniques that permitted them to establish more sedentary settlements. In what is now central Russia, for example, groups were able to hunt wooly mammoths and supplement meat supplies with intensive gathering. The establishment of sedentary communities allowed intensive hunting and gathering groups to establish social stratification and commerce with other similar groups.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zO8gRX54d1gJ:occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/stearns_awl/chapter1/objectives/deluxe-content.html+intensive+hunting+and+gathering+societies&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com
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