The Hadzas and others

                The prologue was an excellent refresher course on things like The Big Bang theory and in time how it relates to how we have developed into Homo Sapiens. I found that inserting what happened once the big bang occurred into a yearlong event, helps many understand that many human advances have happened in a short period of time in relation to the development of Earth. It's outstanding that while the galaxy happened 13 billion years ago life on Earth wasn't around until many years after the galaxy forming, 600 million years ago. Many years after the first life form appeared (250,000 years ago) the first humans existed on Earth. After the first humans came to be we rapidly advanced, in comparison to how the galaxy developed, to the modern people we are now. It is fascinating to think of world history with the 3 C's; Change, Comparison, and Connection.

                It is quite upsetting that the Hadza people of northern Tanzania are nearing extinction just because they are different in how they survive in the world. Many establishments like missionaries and governments don't accept this "primitive" way of living because it isn't like most of those people do it. The Hadza still keep the nomadic process of our older ancestors, which they did for thousands of years. I find nothing wrong with this way of living yet many people are forcing their ways on these peaceful people. The nomadic tendencies started in Africa, but many early humans decided to leave the African continent and travel to Eurasia and Australia. In these regions, you see many cave paintings and the use of better tools than just a rock. The farther the humans, at the time, went the better the skills they developed. Although most of these people depended on gatherers in their groupings, many  started hunting different kinds of animals. I find it surprising that many of the gatherers were women and that there was more equality between men and women than there is now. Throughout this equality, there were rules and regulation if you wanted to live into an age of approximately 35. Another thing I found interesting is the spirituality that happened later in which most of those religions were based on a female entity that was worshipped, unlike most current religions.