What are Archaic Hunters and Gatherers?

Advantage of hunters and gatherers over agriculture?

• What is the advantage that hunters and gatherers have that agriculture societies don't have?

• Answer:

  There are virtually no advantages of hunting and gathering over agriculture. The life span of hunter gatherers is shorter because they are constantly subject to harsh weather and hunting conditions that lead to premature aging. They do indeed have class structures and human history tells us women were usually at the bottom of the class system due to likelihood that they were not directly involved in killing game for meat. Survival depends on ability of hunters to feed the group. Hunter gatherers cannot stay in one place for long because once the game, berries and fruit are depleted they must move on. Anthropologists excavating such sites have revealed they left garbage piles of broken pottery, broken arrowheads and other crude tools behind when they moved on. They spent the majority of their time living from hand to mouth trying to keep their bellies full. The great discoveries that led to modern inventions and conveniences we now enjoy happened because agriculture allowed greater ability to trade goods with others which enriched everyone's life. The more goods one could trade, the more money and goods one could acquire. The harsh life of hunter gatherers gave way to civilized societies where fewer people died at such a young age and science flourished, including medical science and discoveries regarding how unclean living conditions lead to illness. Contrary to other answers given to your question, agriculture led to more leisure time to pursue education, art and travel. Life span of people has nearly doubled from the days of hunter gatherers because they need not live from hand to mouth suffering feast or famine conditions. Sorry, but there are no realistic advantages to hunting and gathering compared with agricultural societies. They had their own forms of pollution, including outhouse conditions that led to illness and contamination of water. They had to keep moving after killing all the game, eating all food that could be gathered, burning all the wood in an area, and polluting an area with sewage. Hunting with a spear involves killing animals while risking your life, gutting out the animal, using animal carcass parts like skin, fur and sinew to hand make clothing and shelter to stay warm in winter, and is very harsh. If you are seriously injured and everyone else is too busy hunting and gathering to take care of you, you will die unless you can manage to feed and clothe yourself in spite or rain, freezing temperatures, and hungry carnivorus animals that want to make you their supper.