Comprehensive Essay on Hunting and Gathering Societies
Hunting-Gathering is generally considered that earliest stage in the social evolution of human groups for which evidence for organized community life appears with regularity. The bulk of this evidence is archaeological in nature and it is supplemented by anthropological data. Records of the any other kind, with the exception of painted depictions of community life, are not available.The archaeological evidence, it must be said, is rich and is quite useful in reconstructing an account of the hunting gathering stage of society. The archaeological method accounts for both ethnographic connotation and technological context and thus helps us understand the features of hunting-gathering stage in a fairly detailed manner.The most plentiful material remains connected with hunting-gathering communities are stone tools and implements. In fact the other material, if any, might have been…