NATV 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Stone Age, Antibody, Syphilis
19 Oct 2018
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No iron and very few metals: stone, bone and wood wear out quickly. Stone age technology not no technology: making an arrowhead requires a lot of skill and is a complicated process. Suffer from vagaries of hunt and gather: have to balance the two (too much meat = physical problems) Oral traditions, extended families, kinship relations: small groups, everyone is a relative (everyone is part of the extended family) Small groups of 20 to 60 or so. Food problem: depends on the food source, lots of food available = bigger groups. Natv1200: wherever we have agriculture (growing instead of gathering) we have bigger groups, food supply is harder to find = groups are smaller. Did not see farmer/industrial system as an improvement but rather as a step backward. Most first nations see europeans as barbarians. Nations people: found 2 types of lesion (1. Still used much time to smell the roses.
