Thursday, February 10, 2011

The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race

for most of history we supported ourselves by hunting and gathering. but now there are very few tribes that are hunters and gatherers. we began many years ago domesticating plants and animals. agriculture is a way to get more food for less work and is why we adopted in in society.agriculture enabled us to build the Parthenon. average time per week devoted to obtaining food is 12-19 hours for one group of bushmen, 14 hours or less for Hadza nomads. the mix of wild plants and animals in diets of surviving hunter-gatherers
provides more protein and better balance of nutrients. farmers concentrate more on high-carb crops like rice and potatoes. archaeologists can tell when the switch happened from evidence from the prehistoric garbage dumps.there is many ways that skeletons are identified and examined, even to determine any diseases they had.  by finding skeletons and viewing them they can determine what the culture was and an average of what they would look like. we still use the same techniques today to determine what kind of past a skeleton had.

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