One of the great myths surrounding the development of human culture over the past 10,000 years is that things got progressively better as we moved from our hunter-gatherer existence to the sublimely elevated state in which we live today." Why does Spencer Wells refer to this "sublime elevation" as a "myth"? Identify a few of his key points as outlined in Pandora's Seed. Respond to one or more of these points, or to the characterization as a whole. Do you agree with Wells? Why, or why not?
"One of the great myths surrounding the development of human culture over the past 10,000 years is that things got progressively better as we moved from our hunter-gatherer existence to the sublimely elevated state in which we live today."
Why does Spencer Wells refer to this "sublime elevation" as a "myth"? Identify a few of his key points as outlined in Pandora's Seed. Respond to one or more of these points, or to the characterization as a whole. Do you agree with Wells? Why, or why not?
For the most of the human history, about 3,00,000 years,where we lived as a hunter gatherers in the sustainable, egalitarian communities among a few dozen people.The human life on the Earth, and the place within planets biophysical systems had changed dramatically with Holocene,which is a geological epoch that begun about 12,000 years ago.The unprecedented combination of the climate stability and the warm temperatures had made a greater dependence on the wild grains in the several parts of world. And over the next several thousand years, the dependence leds to agriculture and large-scale state societies and this is the reason why he called it as a myth
yes I completely agree with him.
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