For Generations to Come

By: Erika Guias

Have you ever wondered what our ancestors did in the past to make their consumption of food is preserved? How come they have continued to live for a longer span of years than we did?

The Paleolithic era is generally known as the Old Stone Age. This is the crucial period to the hunter-gatherers. Their means of obtaining food is exclusively relied upon hunting wild animals, fishing, and gathering wild fruits, berries, nuts, and vegetables to support their diet. The history of humans prior to the Paleolithic period, hunter-gathers consumption of foods are dependent on the amount of food produced in their surroundings.

It has been quite a challenge for them to live longer span of time since they have to worry about their utilization of food whether over fishing a lake would scarce a vital food source or whether drought would wither up important plants. Since there are no agricultural methods from then so that they can produce food intentionally, thus, they are opted to manipulate such systems in a certain manner like rotational hunting and gathering to ensure the food production to their communities.

It is essential to have a background with such an important milestone in human history which it is believed and proven that the beginnings of people start from them. Hunter-gatherers are the first people who traveled as nomads, wandering, and looking for food, water, as well as plants and animals for temporary shelter. Yet change is continual, the hunter-gatherer system began to transform and the discovery of agriculture arise and change things