I found it interesting to read that...

I found it interesting to read that the small Paleolithic societies were seasonally mobile. They moved frequently in order to find more food and water according to the changes in seasons. Due to the fact that they were always moving, they did not have an accumulation of goods. Additionally, all of the moving “resulted in highly egalitarian societies, lacking the many inequalities of wealth and power that came later with agricultural and urban life.” (Ways of the World, 20)  Lack of wealth and power allowed for no formal chiefs, kings, bureaucrats, soldiers, nobles, or priests. I found it interesting that Paleolithic men and women were free from cruel and or oppressive government rule “than any subsequent kind of human society, even if they were more constrained by the forces of nature.”(Ways of the World, 21) Moreover, most people possessed the same skillset (allowing for more equality) Men were the hunters while women were the gathered; it is important to know that one was not more important than the other. Women gathered 70 percent of their diet (plants) men gathered 30 percent of their diet (meat).