Monday, August 24, 2015

Man lived like rest of the Animals for a long time






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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