MMW 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Exogamy, Kalahari Desert, Upper Paleolithic

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 11
• Professor: David Jordan

Document Summary

Lecture: the upper paleolithic, foragers, and ethnographic analogy. Children learn how to be an adult very early in foraging societies: they learn to hunt. Bantu family of languages in africa: diverse language group, as the groups speaking bantu expanded, hunters and foragers were driven into refuge (unfarmable) areas. Hunters in the forest (aka: congo, ate wild yam -> major starch food. Root and part above ground full of thorns: ate chimp lips mushroom, hunting. Drive animals into a net and kill them while they"re in there. Considered taboo to not cooperate with other hunters and fill your net first. Must be sturdy enough to capture enough animals. Hunted caterpillars, birds, monkeys, snails, etc: must dry stuff indoors due to threat of rain, housing. Used huts that could be made quickly. Built with wattle and daub: woven fibers with a lot of mud on it. Learned to be grown-ups at a young age: personal decoration.