Poor Food Resources, Clashes and Innovative Plans: Towards Food Related Initiatives

  December 19, 2020   Read time 1 min
Poor Food Resources, Clashes and Innovative Plans: Towards Food Related Initiatives
Food shortage caused many clashes and forced the people to treat each other in a violent way. This also gave rise to many innovative plans and examination of alternative ways of food collection like growing food. This in turn set the scene for further advancement of tools and technologies.

Very few humans were as lucky as the Jomon people. In most places, necessity forced Stone Age hunter-gatherers to shift from hunting large animals to foraging for an ever-greater variety of wild foods. A slowly growing population needed more food, but previous migrations meant there were fewer places not already inhabited by other humans. With more mouths to feed and nowhere to go, people had to intensify their local foraging or starve. As good hunting grounds became crowded, hunters clashed more often; their skeletons, like the Ice Man’s, show marks of violence. There was another alternative, however: helping edible plants grow and raising captured animals. This happened quite independently in several places around the world, proving that food production was not the “invention” of some lone genius but a necessity that many people responded to in a similar fashion. Technological innovation, in this case growing plants and raising animals, was more of a change in culture and a new way of life than a new set of tools and artifacts.


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