Hunters & Gatherers

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Hunters & Gatherers

Anthropology 1010: Assignment 1
The Asmat, Headhunters, people are located in New Guineas West Iran. These people actually cut off people heads and eat their brains and wear their jaws as a necklace. Peoples brains are not their main source of food. The major food of these people is the starch of the sago palm that they roast. The sago palm is found deep into the swamps. You take an ax and split the palm in to two pieces. The food inside is called sago grub. The sago grub is soft white larva of the Capricorn beetle. They put it on a stick and roast it in the fire.
The Asmat villages are always located by water and the houses are raised on poles above the mud. When high tide comes, so does the seafood, such as shellfish. When high tide leaves the seafood stays and they grub on that. Other forms of food are lizards, pigs, and cassowaries, which are wild f...

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