Essays Tagged: "Hunter-gatherer"

Examines the effects of pets on child development along with the pros and cons of a household pet on children.

nimal relationships were very important to primitive people's survival and petkeeping was common in hunter-gatherer societies. More recently, our population has increased pet ownership. Some reasons f ...

(6 pages) 189 0 3.6 May/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Discuss the negative and positive aspects of the development of agriculture. Was it, or was it not the worst mistake in the history of the human race?

than this kind of gender specialization, there is little specialization of roles within the group. Hunter-gatherers tend to accumulate a large and intimate knowledge of their survival, dangers, food ... very intensively over a long period of time than exploiting a large amount of land extensively, as hunter-gatherers did. For the past 10,000 to 12,000 years, agriculture had spread over the globe and ...

(7 pages) 174 1 4.8 May/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Agriculture

The Agricultural Revoltion.

bor easier and faster for early farmers. Gender role changed dramatically from how they had been in hunter-gatherer society. Before the Agricultural revolution, work tasks had been evenly distributed ...

(2 pages) 93 1 4.6 Jun/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography

Analysis of the different phases of capitalism.

eory of historical materialism mapped out the evolution of society through five distinct epochs: 1. Hunter-gatherer 2. Tribal 3. Feudal 4. Capitalism and 5. Communism. But are these epochs true to soc ...

(6 pages) 219 0 4.3 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

The History of Writing

on cave walls. The advent of a writing system, however, seems to coincide with the transition from hunter-gatherer societies to more permanent societies when it became necessary to count ones propert ...

(2 pages) 56 1 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History > Ancient Egypt

Art Modernism Essay. A structured essay on how Modernist Painters looked at the world in a new way.

Protestant Christian traditions, and patriarchal societies; the savage were those from agrarian or hunter-gatherer tribes, barter-based economies, pagan or totemistic traditions, and matriarchal (or ...

(19 pages) 321 0 4.7 Jun/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Ancient Japan

culture enabled peasants to store food from year to year and encouraged them to abandon the nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle and live in fixed settlements. The use of iron farming tools as well as ot ...

(6 pages) 83 1 4.8 Oct/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Ancient History of Beer

on.A debate has raged since the 1950s' concerning the motivation of humans to change from a nomadic hunter-gatherer civilization to an agricultural society. An American botanist, Jonathan Sauer, sugge ...

(5 pages) 40 0 4.3 Jan/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers

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 ... asis on materials, meaning they had no concern for outside appearances, no "social status", and the hunter-gatherers had a varied diet.(Hunter-Gathers.online.www.mc.maricopa.edu/dept/d10/asb/anthro200 ...

(3 pages) 48 0 2.2 Nov/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Agriculture

Essay on modernism including cubism and expressionism

Protestant Christian traditions, and patriarchal societies; the savage were those from agrarian or hunter-gatherer tribes, barter-based economies, pagan or totemistic traditions, and matriarchal (or ...

(18 pages) 154 0 3.2 Jul/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Design Arts

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

The European drive to explore during the fourteenth and fifteenth century

It has always been the nature of man to explore. From nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes to the current day modern man traveling into space, it is human nature to exp ...

(2 pages) 21 0 2.0 Aug/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

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

The Role Of Cooperation In Anc

revealed how the people of pre-historic civilizations interacted. Pre-historic man was a forager, a hunter-gatherer. They traveled in bands of about twenty-five people and used only transient camps. " ...

(4 pages) 1211 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Mesopotamian Culture         The name Mesopotamia came from the Greek, meaning

10,000 B.C. The environmental conditions allowed the people of Mesopotamia to pass from a rootless hunter-gatherer culture to a culture based on husbandry, agriculture, and permanent settlements. Tra ...

(6 pages) 22 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Patriarchy in Classical Societies

Before the Classical era, women were living in an egalitarian dominant culture, especially in the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Stone Age artwork depicts symbols of women being respected as fertile bei ...

(5 pages) 14 0 3.0 Dec/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History