With the sudden arrival of cooler, drier and less predictable seasons, early human attempts at agriculture in the Near East ceased, and people returned to nomadic hunting and gathering.

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These people, known colloquially as bushmen, traditionally make their livings by hunting and gathering.

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For societies that survive on hunting, gathering and fishing, the loss of legal rights over land they may have lived on for centuries is particularly hard.

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Apart from hunting and gathering, early farming techniques including meadows for fodder, trade and mining have been important ways for earning a living in the region.

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Our ancestors survived through a bias for action (e.g. eating every scrap of food I can get my hands on or clubbing a creature that looks at me sideways) not a bias for planning (thinking about retirement from hunting and gathering).

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In the past, to become a good gatherer or hunter, cook or caregiver, you would actually practice gathering, hunting, cooking and taking care of children all through middle childhood and early adolescence tuning up just the prefrontal wiring you'd need as an adult.

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We recognized then that hunting down and gathering up the world's treasures, man-made and natural, is among the richest mediums there are in which to turn money into experience.

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In place of the missing buildings, he imagined a lively gathering of gentlemen on horseback with their servants, dogs and falcons, setting out on a "Hunting Party" that gives the picture its name.

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