Sunday, September 8, 2013

Response/reflection on the primary source documents

Is there any indication in the documents that paleolithic peoples were more egalitarian than later peoples in wealth, status, power or gender? 

In the documents Nisa talks about how she lived in the bush, and talks about food making her happy. Then she says" It's the same today. Here I am, long since an adult, yet even now, if a person doesn't give something to me, I won't give anything to that person...." This means that Paleolithic people thought the same way as we think today. If no one gives anything to us it means we probably won't give anything either. Nisa also talks about lovers she explains how she married her fourth husband and because she did not love him she had lovers. And she talks about it like being something normal for both of them having. It seems like paleolithic people did not care about wealth, status, power or gender. When they would marry it seemed like they did not care too much who they would marry because they could replace them with another husband. But men were the ones who would bring the food home while women's would stay with the children. In one of the documents it talks about that their might of been "matriarchal society" were women dominated, but then also said there was balance of power. This might means that men and women had the same rights.  I enjoyed reading the documents they helped to give me an idea of what life might of been like in the Paleolithic era. By reading the documents it seems that paleolithic people are not to different, both men and women had the same rights, and when they would marry someone they did not care about status or power. 














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