Man like rest of the animals on this planet, lived in
small groups and foraged the forest for food like berries, fruits herbs. Hunted
small and medium sized animals. These small groups worked all day and every day
was same as previous day. Food is consumed and not stored. They lived in small
caves probably used the caves that have formed in natural cave formations.
Extra layer of protection with vegetation and leaves branches of tree to keep
the wild predatory animals at bay, lived in small groups for security
protecting each other, working together to gather food. The group of hunters
and gatherers were small and each one covered a large area and when the area no
longer provided needed food they moved in search of other more fertile areas
for berries and animals they could hunt. Men and women worked as equal and men
usually hunted and women gathered the berries. Not sure these people knew how
make fire and use it. The family of H & G remained small because woman had
to wait for 4 years at least before she can have next child as she could only
carry one child in their migratory life.
The food they collected Berries fruits and games offered plenty of
proteins and other nutrients than the Currently Farmed grains of rice wheat and
corn. They were taller than early
farming people, like men 5 Feet 9 inches and woman 5 feet 5 inches unlike 5
feet and less than 5 feet for early farming people. Because they did not live
like farming people together in large communities, the communicable diseases
were far less frequent. Farming communities produced more food so needed to be
stored and also made an inducement for rodents which carry pestilence bacteria.
Bubonic Plague became a scourge after humans embraced farming. Fairly disease
free Hunters and Gathers lived longer, they never experienced any famine like
farming communities did when they became dependent on few tubers, plants, seeds
and pellets. Irish Potato farming
failure and a million people perished is a glaring example
Inequality in the community is also one of the miseries
of farming, creating a section of people who stole or strong armed by force or
intimidation. Farming communities had to create deterrence to guard against
such coercion. So category of battle force or warrior class which not only
involved in defending their communities they also had to safeguard people from
criminal elements living inside the communities. Ruling class once created,
held on to perpetual power laying foundation for Royal class, Dynasty and Kings
and other forms generic potentates. An egalitarian society was
replaced by Dynastic one. Women of the H and G community who were working as
equal now became women to produce more offsprings and hence deterioration of
their general health and also became beasts of burden. Might become the right
way to live and rule. This is the beginning of the end of our civilization.
Agricultural Farming started over 10,000 years is the
greatest misguided step human race took and can’t be reversed. No one foresaw
it. Many the hunters and gathers like Kalahari Bushman of Kalahari desert had
their Shaman Wise man, Medicine man a Healer who warned them against the
dangers of Farming and agricultural way of living, a wisdom had by these Godmen
is a mystery. This also tell us Noble prize level intellectual egg head,
highbrow of civilized world failed to see what Shaman of Bush people saw. The ancient religious
wisdom developed over thousands of years is really a proof of existence of
something wiser and beyond understanding by existing current day science. Some
Celestial power exists above us.
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