Project:    Knowledge & the Transition to Agriculture
Your Mission, should you decide to accept it:
Answer the questions found below as a group. 
Hand in one answer with everyone's name
 - First & last and in alphabetical order by last name
 - Include only members who are present
Indicate the date:  ________________________ 		 Indicate the name of the class:     ____________________
Indicate the name of the Project:  ____________________
Be thorough; write good answers
Use your time wisely. 
Be finished by the end of the allotted time
Project:    Knowledge & the Transition to Agriculture

Answer the first question; then  class will review answers

Then do second question, etc. 

1.  What Knowledge does a member of a hunter gatherer society have?              (Analyze men & women separately)  Answer

2.  What Knowledge does a a member of a hunter gatherer society need to develop a primitive Agricultural society? 

     (Analyze men & women separately) Answer

3.  How is Knowledge developed in a hunter gatherer society?    Answer


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Questions
    
Answer: What Knowledge does a member of a hunter-gatherer society have?
Women:  Knowledge relates to roles
Gatherer: 
  where food is during what season
  weather/seasons
  how to get from one place to another
  what is good to eat, what is not
  how to get it
  how to preserve it
Home mgt:
  cooking, fire
  make clothing & shelter
  rituals
  alliances
Raising family:  babies 2  boyz & girlz;   girlz  2  women 
  Cause of procreation
  mid-wifery skills
  early socialization & education
  later soc & ed for girls

Men
Hunter:
   what to hunt
   how to hunt
   how to clean & butcher
   when & where to hunt & how to get there & back
Warrior: 
   how to fight
   how to org a grp of fighters
   strat & tactics
   when to fight
   when to make peace
Teacher:  boyz  2  men
   later soc & ed for girls
 
 Questions
    


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Questions
  
Answer:  What Knowledge does a a member of a hunter-gatherer society need to develop a primitive Agricultural society?
What animals to raise
How to herd
What plants to grow
How to clear land, plant, harvest (get seeds & food)
How to preserve animal & plant food
How to build permanent home
Where to live:  Weather, seasons, floods, enemies
 
 
 Questions
  

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Questions
  
Answer:  How is Knowledge developed in a hunter - gatherer society?
Women gathered
   gained K of plant reproduction over time
   gained K of what plants were easily grown
Women tended tribal settlement
   gained K of animal reproduction
M & W brought in baby wild animals: 
   managed to tame some of them
 
 Questions
  
The End