Was it caveman overpopulation? Why would anyone voluntarily leave a warm climate?
2007-03-23 12:20:49 · 25 answers · asked by anonymous 4 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
The human species. Why would cavemen want to live in Europe or Asia where it's cold?
2007-03-23 12:42:36 · update #1
who LEFT????
2007-03-23 12:23:45 · answer #1 · answered by Miss 21 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humans have always been explorers. It's not like some early human in prehistoric Ethiopia said to himself one morning, "I think it's just too warm here; I think I'll take the fam and move to Finland!" People have always moved around for lots of reasons, including searching for food and water, but for others as well. Prehistoric peoples weren't really sedentary (staying in one place for a long time) until after the domestication of plants began to catch on. Plus, humans are especially good at adjusting to different physical environments. We're good at problem solving, and we could prehistorically survive all over the world as a result.
2007-03-23 19:51:45 · answer #2 · answered by forbidden_planet 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
jimeny learn your facts. the continents were generally in the same placement when the humans moved out of africa.
Also people moved out of africa because there was too much competition in africa for food so they moved out of africa in search of other food. If you mean homosapians though they moved out of africa during a drought wich almost made homosapians extinct in north africa while there was a ice age and the cold climate prevented homospaians from moving on through north. Only the few and creative managed to survive. When the ice age stopped the homosapians passed through europe and then encountered other types of hominid and out competed them. One popular other hominid they encountered was the neandertals.
2007-03-23 20:21:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People migrated because humankind is imbued with curiosity, bravery, originality, intelligence and inquisitiveness.
The first people who left may have just been hunting and got lost. So they set up a new household where they were.
Actually, early man did not realize that he could grow wheat and peaches in his back yard, so he gathered wild-growing edible vegetation and followed the herds of animals for meat.
You should read the book, CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR by Jean Auel! Besides that one there are four more books in the series, supposedly with another one yet to come. You would love them.
2007-03-23 19:31:45 · answer #4 · answered by KIZIAH 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is evidence that suggests that when humans left Africa, it was because of environmental pressures. It is believed that a major volcanic eruption caused environmental upheaval throughout the globe; in Africa, it caused severe drought, causing many animal populations to dwindle. Thus humans had to leave to find new food sources.
2007-03-24 05:59:35 · answer #5 · answered by wendy g 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Following the herds of animals with "their" dogs. They had no idea of latitude and its relationship with climate, and only travelled relatively short distances during their brief lifetimes. Also, they would not have followed a direct route North, but a wandering path. Not many caves along the way, either. Shelters of sticks covered with skins, probably, like the yurts, wigwams, and teepees still used today. I played chess with someone in Mongolia who still lives in a yurt (they call them a "gur"). The traditional Inuit (formerly misnamed Eskimo's) still use them in summertime.
2007-03-25 06:34:34 · answer #6 · answered by CLICKHEREx 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally I think it got a bit too warm and dry, and people wanted to move for the type of food and water they wanted at the time. It's really interesting to me to even contemplate it. I sure wish I had a time machine to go back and just see it from a distance!
2007-03-23 19:24:38 · answer #7 · answered by merlin_steele 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You never go on vacation and think "me like to live here"? It not so different back in the day.
Personally, Og think all animals like a gas or 'wind' if you will. Not stay in one place. Always want to leave cave, that for sure. As long as man can find a way to live somewhere, he will. Remember, the place I stay tonight is not so far away, if i walked here, from where I stay last night. All change is incremental.
2007-03-24 00:56:51 · answer #8 · answered by og_i_og 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Are you African American, or who are you referring to with "we"? Civilization was founded in the middle east- Mesopotamia which is now modern day Iraq... Very few of us are the descendants of people from the African continent.
Of course as far as africans leaving africa I suppose I would want out too if I lived in a land of abject poverty where a bunch of uncivilized folks were throwing spears and stabbing each other with sharp sticks...
2007-03-23 19:24:41 · answer #9 · answered by Jason 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It has nothing to do with being warm or nice. It's all about moving where the food supply and competition for it takes you and the inherent human need to explore.
2007-03-23 19:24:29 · answer #10 · answered by jkm65 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Natural migratory patterns of game animals encouraged the people who hunted them to follow them to other areas. The desertification of the saharah probably helped too, as well as just odd coincedence (nomadic people just happened too leave).
2007-03-27 09:52:22 · answer #11 · answered by - Tudor Gothic Serpent - 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋