ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Industrial Technology, Stone Age, Extensive-Form Game
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Ten thousand years ago there was no agriculture. The bulk of human lived as foragers by gathering and hunting: lived in groups of 20 people. There are a lot of myths about hunting and gathering and develop myths about what is progress and development. Was it just human will or are there unintended human contexts that force people to behave a certain way. They were their own government and bosses. What happened in history where we developed these. Why is there a huge difference between rich and poor, weak and strong. Morgan cam up with civilization, barbarism and salvage. What separates salvage from barbarians harvesting fire. Advances in technology: this was the principle criterion for classifying technology and how they would bee ranked. Stone age technology implies that is back work and old. When you compare all the societies, everything revolves around energy: muscle, fuel. For white, nuclear energy marks the start for society.
