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Particularly as practiced thousands of years ago when farming first appeared as an alternative to hunting and gathering, there were both advantages and disadvantages to each, but on the whole, the hunter gatherers were healthier. Hunting and gathering tended to produce a more diversified and nutritious diet, was less labor intensive, and since it did not produce as large a quantity of food, it also did not lead to the same high reproductive rate, since hunter gatherers can only have as many children as they can feed. The higher reproductive rate among farming communities eventually lead to to ills of early civilization, such as epidemics, water polluted by sewage, economic disparity and class struggle, etc.
However, hunting and gathering is much less reliable as a food source; if you are just trying to find food in some natural environment, there is never any guarantee of what you will find, and furthermore, there are seasonal variations. In the winter the hunter gatherer may get very hungry, at least in the temperate or northerly lattitudes. And of course, the larger population of farming societies inevitably overcame the smaller bands of hunter gatherers. In a social sense, hunter gatherers could not compete.
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What provided more food hunting and gathering or farming?
It was (farming) a more reliable and stable food source than hunting/gathering.
What term describes the period of time when humans turned from hunting and gathering to farming?
Well not going on much... but I think the Farming Revolution!
What were Powhatan Indian occupation?
hunting, fishing, farming, gathering berries and using trees for houses and canoes.
How did this economic activity differ from farming?
hunting and gathering isnt the easiest way to feed a growing population in the neolithic revolution.
What is hunting and gathering?
It's a lifestyle, You hunt for meat. Gathering is basically scavenging, It involves plants foods.
What was the ancient period when people changed from hunting gathering to farming called?
The shift from hunting to gathering and then to farming is called civilization
What kind of culture is hunting and gathering?
nomadic lifestyle
What advantages farming and herding have over haunting and gathering as a way of life?
The biggest advantage of farming and herding over hunting and gathering as a way of life is that it is controlled. These methods of food gathering are more dependable than hunting and gathering.
What provided more food hunting and gathering or farming?
It was (farming) a more reliable and stable food source than hunting/gathering.
How did the southwest Indians get their food?
gathering,hunting,farming,and irragation
What invention was created so that people could stop hunting and gathering?
The discovery of farming allowed people to settle from a nomadic life of hunting and gathering.
What were the job opportunities for people in the Neolithic times?
farming, hunting, building, gathering.
Who started farming?
Farming began during the Neolithic revolution. It was the large switch from hunting and gathering to agriculture in small villages.
Why obtaining food by hunting and gathering is characteristic of a nomadic lifestyle?
Nomads did not stay in one place long enough to farm- they had to rely on hunting, and gathering naturally growing foods.
What jobs did young people do in victorains times?
Farming,Hunting,Gathering, and Building I Guess.
Why did Native Americans adopt a sedentary lifestyle?
Some Native American adopted a sedentary lifestyle because they found that farming was an easier and more certain way of getting food than was hunting and gathering alone. Others adopted that lifestyle because they were forced to after being militarily defeated by the invading Europeans.
What term describes the period of time when humans turned from hunting and gathering to farming?
Well not going on much... but I think the Farming Revolution!
