GGR267H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Spritsail, Mohenjo-Daro, Indus River
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Foragers and hunters; collect things for a living. She tries to give a picture of culture change; the ways people try and make a living. Not a large population; since their method of food gathering called for it they would move around a lot. Simple economic and political arrangements, they did not need formal leaders, no occupational specialization, if they did, they had a spiritual power. Hierarchy (if there was) were based on age or gender (men were different from female) Work labor (very high yield relative to labor) Since there was little difference in individual wealth, shared wealth, egalitarian (she suggests that they get a high yield of food for not doing that much work) Political organization (informal, few if any formal leaders) let in oor not) (resolve conflict through mobility; move away from, group size, membership; who you. Foragers began to plant crops, herd domestic animals. Did not have to move around, lived in semi permentant settlements.
