Sep 7
Evidence Document I.I
A Paleolithic Woman in the Twentieth Century
In 1971 Marjorie Shostakovich the anthropologist meet a "bush lady" on the border of Botswana and South Africa in the Kalahari desert. She name was Nisa and was about 50 years old. What I found interesting is that she lived a life that is interesting in many ways. As a child she played like a child and big sister. She would carry her new born little brother on her shoulders to play. Some parents would think this would be a bit dangerous and not a good idea. An instinct of a crying baby might be that he was hungry and Nisa as a child brought him to their mother to nurse. Awesome baby sitter in my opinion. As they grew older they played often. Some parents might consider some of it to be rough and dangerous in the wild bush which formed a strong family bond. They would gather food like berries and beans together and sometimes help father with the animal traps. Their father would often be out hunting and return with meat. Everyone loved to eat meat. A few year later Nisa had an arrange marriage with Tashay. They were both too young to know what to expect. Nisa wanted to run away for the unknown and cling to her family. In a short time she grew to like him and vice a versa. He would hunt and bring back meat. When he was gone she would miss him. Soon they had sex and enjoyed it, a lot. She had a child and life was good. Soon after Tashay died. Nisa was a single mom and heartbroken. Her father and brother were too far way to help as the hunter of the family. She missed him as the meat provider, lover, father, husband and friend. She blamed God. As time went on she found another husband and another and another. Her 4th husband Besa made love to Nisa so often she thought something was wrong with him. She enjoyed sex and had many partners. It was normal is that community to have many lovers outside of marriage. Sorta like what some families today do. I guess after you lose your first true love, it is sometimes replaced with many partners that may not ever replace that joy, compassion, or friendship.
A Paleolithic Woman in the Twentieth Century
In 1971 Marjorie Shostakovich the anthropologist meet a "bush lady" on the border of Botswana and South Africa in the Kalahari desert. She name was Nisa and was about 50 years old. What I found interesting is that she lived a life that is interesting in many ways. As a child she played like a child and big sister. She would carry her new born little brother on her shoulders to play. Some parents would think this would be a bit dangerous and not a good idea. An instinct of a crying baby might be that he was hungry and Nisa as a child brought him to their mother to nurse. Awesome baby sitter in my opinion. As they grew older they played often. Some parents might consider some of it to be rough and dangerous in the wild bush which formed a strong family bond. They would gather food like berries and beans together and sometimes help father with the animal traps. Their father would often be out hunting and return with meat. Everyone loved to eat meat. A few year later Nisa had an arrange marriage with Tashay. They were both too young to know what to expect. Nisa wanted to run away for the unknown and cling to her family. In a short time she grew to like him and vice a versa. He would hunt and bring back meat. When he was gone she would miss him. Soon they had sex and enjoyed it, a lot. She had a child and life was good. Soon after Tashay died. Nisa was a single mom and heartbroken. Her father and brother were too far way to help as the hunter of the family. She missed him as the meat provider, lover, father, husband and friend. She blamed God. As time went on she found another husband and another and another. Her 4th husband Besa made love to Nisa so often she thought something was wrong with him. She enjoyed sex and had many partners. It was normal is that community to have many lovers outside of marriage. Sorta like what some families today do. I guess after you lose your first true love, it is sometimes replaced with many partners that may not ever replace that joy, compassion, or friendship.
Sep 12. First Civilization .
ReplyDeleteThere are so many things that were created that shaped the first civilization. People who were fisherman found great value in anchovies, sardines and other fit almond the coast. There would trade for other goods like cotton, squash, beans and other products that were grown by the farmer. Sounds like a win win situation. There were also so many other way to survive , thrive, proper, make a living, such as steel workers to make the tools to farm, carpenters to make build the houses and barns, doctors to help the sick and the list goes on. As families grow sometimes their assets did as well such as owning more land, cattle, houses, ect, basically more stuff. This created the hierarchies of class. It became so extreme that it started the erosion of equality. People actually owned people as slaves, it didn't matter the color of your skin. What matter was the rich had the power. The was even the famous code of Hammurabi depended on social status. "A free-born commoner who struck a person of equal rank had to pay a small fee, but if he struck a man who is his superior he would receive 60 strokes with an oxtail whip in public." The hierarchies of gender has been a bit unequal in my opinion but the past is the past. Men has the power and some women were treated horrible, somethings like a piece of property. Men could marry more than one woman and have sex with multiple women and it was accepted. If a women had sex with another woman's husband she would be punished.