Sunday, August 14, 2011

Women developed agriculture; men were freed from hunting, had WAY to much free time & got lazy: Agree or not?

"we have small bands of hunter-gatherers with no real cl structure; the only identifiable division of labor is a fairly natural one, based on and age, where the females and elderly gather plants and seeds and tend for the young, while the males in prime age hunt. And these productive activities were not equal in yield; gathering provided at least 75% of the caloric intake, meaning that women were the primary economic producers... The brutality of Paleolithic life meant that all labor was directed at subsistence...But then comes along the Neolithic with the agricultural revolution. Land becomes a valuable commodity. As agriculture spreads, land becomes scarce. Out of this arises a new social order based around property. And of course, since property can only be based on force, this leads to a series of easily observable changes in the societies, which still plague us to this day:

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