Essays Tagged: "hunter gatherers"

"Botswana"

of the Tswana are farmers.There are also about 10,000 of the San people, or "Bushmen". Some San are hunter-gatherers,and some are farmers. Several thousand whites are also included in Botswana's popul ...

(2 pages) 284 2 3.8 Sep/1996

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Sea Gypsies of Asia Boast "Incredible" Underwater Vision.

For centuries the seminomadic Moken people have lived as hunter-gatherers, dwelling on boats or stilted dwellings along the coasts of Myanmar (Burma) and Tha ...

(3 pages) 66 1 4.6 Jun/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays > Travel Descriptions

Living In The Environment Principles, Connections, and Solutions : Miller 12th Edition Chapter 2 Outline

Increased environmental impact because of resource use, pollution, and environmental degradation.Hunter-gatherers had little impact on environment because Small populations Low techno ...

(4 pages) 69 0 5.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

The Agricultural Revolution.

p that the Agricultural Revolution has brought to us.To begin you have to consider the way life the hunter-gatherer lived. The people survived by hunting and living in caves or temporary shelters (Joh ... shelters (John P.Mckay, A History of World Societies, Volume I, sixth edition, Boston, 2000, p.6). Hunter gatherers were able to adapt to anything including any environmental situation. The amazing t ...

(3 pages) 48 0 2.2 Nov/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Agriculture

Discuss the impact on the health of Aboriginal peoples brought on by the changes since the arrival of Europeans in Australia

ralia.BodyBefore European SettlementBefore European settlement, the Australian Aboriginals lived as hunter gatherers in isolation from the rest of the world. They survived great climatic changes and a ...

(5 pages) 100 0 5.0 May/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

Chapters 6 and 14 Summary of "Duiker and Speilvogel"

t 15,000 years ago. The people spread all throughout North and South America. The first people were hunter-gatherers, and later on had some form of agriculture. In Teotihuacán signs of civiliza ...

(5 pages) 22 0 4.3 Nov/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

The Nez Perce: A History

ople undergoing a cultural and lifestyle change against their will.Historically, the Nez Perce were hunter-gatherers. They relied on fishing, big game hunting, and vegetable and root gathering in orde ... offered protection from the harsh winters.During winter, the Nez Perce changed from their nomadic, hunter-gatherer way of life to a semi-permanent village way of life. According to Gay 1981, the Nez ...

(9 pages) 19 0 5.0 Feb/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Rural Environmental Changes in Historic Wales and England

ring which people began to settle into small communities, dismissing their pre-existence as nomadic hunter-gatherers and embarking on agriculture and farming as a way of life. Near 4000 BC, the concep ... along with the first import of livestock crossed the Channel into England1. The progression from a hunter-gatherer existence to one subjugated by farming has in the past been designated the Neolithic ...

(9 pages) 26 0 5.0 Jun/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Right Wing Extremism

ns and cities were formed out of a mutual desire for safety, protection, and comfort by farmers and hunter-gatherers. Besides one or more leaders who would have kept the people together and took care ...

(10 pages) 44 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Stonehenge

have been proposed by archaeologists. The band, with less than 100 individuals, egalitarian, mobile hunter-gatherers whose architecture consists of primarily temporary shelters. Tribes with up to 1000 ...

(3 pages) 11 0 0.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Early Native Americans

the Aztecs in Mexico were based primarily on the cultivation of maize. Discovered around 5,000 B.C, hunter-gatherers in Mexico embraced this crop and made it the foundation of the complex, large scale ... d across the Americas from the Mexican heartland. As it was planted, maize started to alter nomadic hunters into settled agricultural villagers and builders of complex civilizations, but this process ...

(6 pages) 49 0 5.0 Nov/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Agriculture Changes the World

first to use irrigation, the watering of crops, by building dikes and canals.The early humans were hunter-gatherers and then changed to farmers. They used to live in simple villages but, since they h ... dn't be able to farm and create all of the farming technology we have today.The people changed from hunter-gatherers to farmers because new lands opened up. The glaciers retreated because there was gl ...

(2 pages) 40 0 3.0 Nov/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Agriculture

The Natural Environment in Historical Rural England and Wales

ring which people began to settle into small communities, dismissing their pre-existence as nomadic hunter-gatherers and embarking on agriculture and farming as a way of life. Near 4000 BC, the conce ... along with the first import of livestock crossed the Channel into England1. The progression from a hunter-gatherer existence to one subjugated by farming has in the past been designated the Neolithic ...

(12 pages) 28 0 5.0 Nov/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

HIgh School Athletics

too much emphasis is put on the "sound body" part. Seriously, people. We are no longer a society of hunter-gatherers, and, while a sound body is important for overall health, a sound mind is, in the l ...

(3 pages) 1095 1 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Caveman

ins and huts from branches and mammoth bones in addition to living in caves. They were also nomadic hunter-gatherers with a very developed technology. They ate fruits, nuts, seeds, etc. and in general ...

(2 pages) 1441 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

The Wonders of Blombos Cave, South Africa

gh abundances of marine resources (Henshilwood, 2001). These conditions may have encouraged nomadic hunter-gatherers to reside in this cave while developing a sophisticated means of subsistence by for ...

(6 pages) 1 0 0.0 Sep/2012

Subjects: Science Essays > Archaeology