Movement

What I was going to say in class was that I think that all culture stems from movement. For example when early human beings were in Africa they had different culture based on what things were there. One such culture was probably being afraid of hippopotami. This stemmed into the belief that the god of water was dangerous. In another part of Africa there were probably other things that people did. Those people were probably not scared of water and might have been the first people to enter the water. The descendants of these people were probably the first to build water craft and enter water based rituals. When the people moved out of Africa they brought some of their culture with them. While they were traveling as nomads they came across certain things that taught them lessons that they would teach to later generations. This would have continued to the extent that the facts would become common knowledge in that culture but not in others thus differing one culture from another and defining different cultures. The population grew over time and finally there was one person who came across something controversial such as the ability to work together to take down bigger game. This culture probably divided a culture. One culture was based on gathering from the area and one culture was based on hunting. When these two cultures split they formed the base kind of like classification. When these two cultures split they split even further when one thinker in the hunter clan thought of catching things in water rather than using huge numbers of people to take down game. This clan was most likely made up of the culture that didn't care about being close to water and thus gained an advantage over the other people just based on where they lived and moved. If the hunting population moved to places where there were animals with a lot of fats and proteins then they would have a strength advantage over the gatherers but if they moved to a place with an animal that is made up of lean meat then they would most likely perish. It must be said that fat was not bad back then but good because fat was a way to store long term energy rather than protein which would only build muscle. Today we don't need that fat reserve because we have evolved so much that we have food everyday. Also another interesting point to point out is that if the group moved to an area that was full of disease then the clan would die out no matter what the technological advantage. As for the gatherer group they would most likely reach a point where they started collecting seeds and planting them. They started farming. Now either the gatherers jumped on the band wagon or some EXPERIENCE from movement told them that this was a bad idea. Now the crucial point occurs. It is when the hunter/fishing tribe meets the farming tribe. The gathering tribe is dead so they are out of the picture. If you are wondering the different tribes wouldn't have stayed together because if they had then the gathering/farming part of the tribe would not have allowed the hunter/fishing part of the tribe to move and follow the game and if the hunter part was more dominant then they wouldn't have allowed the farmer part of the tribe to stay in one place thus spinning them into a black hole of failure and death. When they meet the hunter tribe(being the strongest from the years of running and killing) would have either killed the farmer tribe or made them work for them. This sudden clash of culture would have been very influential because the two cultures would share their cultural beliefs such as a rain god or a tiger god. The clothes would be made out of whatever was available to them. Obviously plants would be woven into clothes for the farmers and hides would be the clothes of the hunters. The two cultures would exchange clothes and maybe make new styles of wearing the clothes or even combining the two types of clothes. They would make instruments out of their cultural objects.Thus an entire culture was born. This is only one example of the many different cultural lifestyles based on movement. This clan could have moved on to become Rome or Egypt. They could have died out due to Malaria. Maybe a group that stayed true to hunting turned into the Spartans. It is all possible. That is why I believe that culture stems down to movement of people and location.