Introduction Diet in Different Cultures: Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons, Batak and Koreans It is important to study diet of different cultures in anthropology because food is essential in human existence. Food is insufficient commodity and thus offers a good platform for debate and advancing anthropological theories and research methods (Hockett & Haws, 2003). In addition, the study of diet brings about light on societal processes like political economic value creation, social construction of memory as well as symbolic value creation (Dirks & Hunter, 2013). This topic has created a good arena for debating cultural and historical importance in relationship to structural and symbolic explanations of human behavior. Through this, it is possible to …show more content…
To ensure that humanity is understood in totality, study of diet is thus inevitable. Therefore, in our cases here, four diet culture that include Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons, Batak and Koreans will be discussed. Diet Culture in Neanderthal The culture of diet in Neanderthals have been studied for a very long time by scientists. This is to establish what they ate, the reasons behind their population patterns as well as reasons for becoming extinct. The topic is able to understand the culture change behind the early man and what he ate more between meat and plant. Diet is a very important aspect of life and culture revolves mostly around what people eat (Hardy et al 2013). Study of Neanderthal culture reveals that for them to survive, diet was inevitable. Diet acted as a unifying factor in all aspect of their culture. First, diet dictated their settlement patterns. It is diet that ensured Neanderthal man lived in a cluster settlement of at least thirty people to enhance their survivor in hunting (Hockett & Haws, 2003). The reason being, food availability depended on team work and thus creating a cluster culture of …show more content…
Neanderthal tool culture inclined toward hunting according to Takacs & Cline 2015. They had sharp tools fashioned for cutting meat as well as for cracking bones open. Thus, their culture in general and their cultural belief revolved around their diet. Diet Culture in Cro-Magnons Cro-Magnons were the closer species of man after Neanderthals. They were more pronounced mentally and intelligent than their predecessors (Montgomery & Bennett, 1979). This is especially due to adaptation in their diet culture. To adapt to more harsh conditions than their predecessors, they had to come up with more sophisticated tools to enhance hunting and gathering. Diet related closely with the culture of tools Cro-Magnons used. To ensure that they adopted in a more diet competitive environment, tools involution was inevitable. The tools that they had were sharp and lighter to ensure that they can kill an animal faster and in a longer range (Sistiaga et al 2014). Diet also influenced their clothing culture. Cro-Magnons used animal hides they got from their catch to make clothing, bedding, shelters and robes (Fagan, 1996). They used needles that were sharpened from bones of the animals they killed to sew skin in making clothing and beddings among many other
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In Jared Diamond’s excerpt from his book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, he puts forward the historical narrative of how human evolution progresses at varying rates for different cultures due solely to the particular geographic region that people assimilate from. Diamond supports this thesis with specific evidence on the importance of food production, emphasizing that food is the main ingredient needed for a population to experience progress and growth, enabling that culture to expand around the world. I agree with Diamond’s dissertation and find it compelling due to his logical evidence and ethos on the topic.
Paleolithic diet: includes gathering and hunting foods, like meat and berries. Cultivated foods are ones that they had to learn to grow.
There is evidence to suggest that Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens had coexisted for approximately 35-40,000 years, (Fagan 2010) from around 60,000 years ago to 25,000 years ago when they finally went extinct (Gibbon 2001). Anthropologists are still uncertain what the cause of their extinction was. This paper will analyze three main theories of Neanderthal extinction. The first theory is the competition theory, which claims that the Homo sapiens and Neanderthals had to compete for resources, ultimately leading to their demise. The second theory I will discuss is the climate change theory, which claims that Homo sapiens lived while Neanderthals died because they were better adapted to the climate. The last theory I will discuss is the possible “extinction through absorption” theory which claims the Neanderthal interbred with the Homo sapiens and became one species. In this paper I will also be comparing the technologies, and diets of both species. In addition, I will look at the anatomic relation between the Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, how their body shape and size differed, and if this gave any advantage to one side or the other. My thesis for this paper will state that Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis had co-existed but the disappearance of the Neanderthal in Eurasia is due to the appearance of the more culturally advanced and genetically superior Homo sapiens and the failure of the Neanderthal to adapt in an evolving climate.
As emphasized again and again by author Robb Wolf in his popular book, The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet, “Agricultural diets of today make us chronically ill.” The Paleo Diet, by forcing us to eat more like our caveman ancestors, fixes all of our detrimental, highly-processed, ca...
The ancestral lines of Neanderthals and modern humans is split roughly about 800,000 years ago, making them our closest relatives in the hominid ancestry. Neanderthals inhabited Europe and parts of the Western Asia before going extinct around 30,000 years ago. Neanderthals made and used a range of tools, they were able to control fire, make and wore clothing, were very skilled hunters of large animals however also ate plant foods, they lived in shelters, and occasionally made symbolic or ornamental objects, which no previous hominid species, had ever practiced this representative and complex conduct. Over this essay we will be covering some elemental information on Neanderthals, their differences and similarities anatomically with modern humans, along with their differences in behavior, and finally giving some possible implications for the timing of the development of culture.
Most of their evidence comes from the fossilized bones of Neanderthals and Cro- Magnons, or modern man’s ancestors (Shreeve, 150). There is a definite difference between their bone structures, and it may be a significant enough difference to divide them into species. There is a set of traits that distinguishes Neanderthals. Their general proportions are short, robust, and strong. Males and females of all ages have thick bones, and very pronounced muscle and ligament attachment sites. They also have distinct facial and cranial features. They have a large skull with no chin, a significant brow-ridge, and a large nasal opening (Shreeve, 49-150). They have large brains, around 1400cc, that protrude in the back, causing an occipital bun in the skull (Lecture, 4/19). Cro-Magnons on the other hand look more like humans do today. They are more slender and not as muscular, with chins and rounder skulls with slightly smaller brains among other traits.
Neanderthals and modern humans coexisted for well over 100,000 years. Then suddenly Homo neandertalensis began to die out and surrender the earth to Homo sapiens. Paleontologists and anthropologists have entertained several possibilities to the causes of this event: interbreeding among Neanderthals and humans, competition for natural resources, and Darwin’s theory of “survival of the fittest.” What the real cause has been has plagued scientists for years. Now, due to an international research team from Germany, those possibilities have been even further deduced, making it easier to pinpoint the exact reason Homo neandertalensis became extinct.
People seem to be enjoying the current events and influx of knowledge in decision-making and the rise of the modern society that forfeits traditions and culture of the old. He denotes that the nutritional world has been impact negatively. In his article “The Worst Mistake in History of the Human Race” he strongly points that the old ways of practicing nutrition were much between as compared to the current world. The article begins by highlighting the various beliefs which people have long been exposed to since tender ages. For instance, he mentions that people have been taught to understand that various origins of the universe and human creation. He thus compares the same with the changes in the current global society. Yet, the question remains are these changes meant for good or are they a mistake to the human
This diet is actually designed after people who lived in the Paleolithic era of Earth’s history. It’s also called the Caveman diet by some people. The general idea is that to be your healthiest, you should eat the way our earliest ancestors did.
The diet of any culture is important to consider when looking at the lifestyles of others to fully understand how they live. The basic diet of the Jewish is termed koshe...
...-gathers was better. There were not many issues with the diet of the pre-Neolithic people. They had better distribution of their body muscle and work. They all had tasks that worked the entire body, from moving place to place, to their specific jobs. The Neolithic people had a job that one small group of people did, weather it was basket weaving or tending to the produce.
If you are abreast with the history, some thousands of years ago, during the Paleolithic Age, cavemen had very few options for the foods that they could eat. As a result, their food intake was usually just restricted to fish, vegetables, nuts and the like.
These species created many different tools, had similar bodies, and even proceeded in a similar burial process as humans do. The similarities between the Neanderthals and humans are quite unique and interesting. Many scientists have discovered the Neanderthals burials of the deceased shows that this species had to put a decent amount of thought and effort into the burial process. While the scientists uncovered the Neanderthals attempt in the burial process, it specifically shows that they did indeed believe in some sort of higher power and followed a type of religion. Although it is unclear which specific religion they did follow, it is clear to see that the Neanderthals did follow their own religion because the burial process signifies the belief in
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