Blog Post #2

Neolithic "Agriculture Revolution": What Paleolithic Might Have Been Like? 

"Nisa the !Kung Woman"

Nisa is not a Paleolithic woman but her experiences are similar to that of the Paleolithic people. Although, Nisas experiences don't accurately say what Paleolithic people may have been like in the past but it hinted what they did similarly.

Like the Paleolithic people, Nisa's people were called gatherer-hunters. They hunt and gathered their food for survival. The labour work was divided equally by gender where males would hunt meat and females would gather berries and beans. However, Nisa's people were sometimes stingy with their meat which I think distinguished them from the Paleolithic people. Paleolithic people were not stingy people because they had to work together to survive.

When it comes to marriage, Paleolithic and Nisa had similarities. Polygamy was permitted but most women were stingy with their man and didn't want to share. Like Paleolithic women, Nisa wanted a monogamous marriage and weren't fond of the idea of sharing her husband. Although, Nisa and her husband both had affairs. I can say that the way both Nisa and the Paleolithic lived depends on the individual's decisions. Monogamous was an option for women in the Paleolithic era and to Nisa as well. Some stayed with one husband and others stick to multiple lovers. 

Modern is a reflection of history and that is the situation with Nisa's experiences to the people in the Paleolithic era. It could only say so much about what or what not happened. Nisa's experiences is not the same as other women in her community but it hinted how Paleolithic people live, or at least according to Strayer and other scholars.