The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler.

Volume 1, the Pre-historic World

This is episode 12, Hunter Gatherers. The This episode is important due to the fact that our chronological story has brought us to the verge of a dramatic change in human society behaviour.

During the last 10,000 years of human existence

we have seen a radical shift from hunter-gatherer societies into agricultural societies.

Agricultural societies have domesticated plants and animals

through the practice of farming, which is something that we will

explore in detail in future episodes. In order to have a good understanding of the

transition into agriculture, we must first understand

the nature of hominins previously in the way that they would sustain themselves.

So in this episode, we will look at those hunter-gatherer

societies that spent most of their time foraging for food in order to stay alive.

In order to do this, we will go back in time

and look at the developing technologies

and see what impact they may have had on societies.

Hominin adaptation.

If we go back to our very first podcast episode,

which introduced the first hominins previous to the Australopithecus,

we were looking at a species of animal that may have also been in some way linked

to our closest extant relative, the chimpanzee.

Many of the studies that we have looked at in previous episodes, such as

speech and language and technology, we have looked at chimpanzee behavior

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