a Day In The Life Of a Hunter-Gatherer

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A Day In The Life Of A Hunter-Gatherer It is around 5,000 B.C., during the New Stone Age. I live in a family of hunters and Gatherers. There is me my father and my five brothers. My mother died while giving birth to my youngest brother. Our family home is a cave. Our clothing is made from animal skin and fur. My three older brothers do all the hunting. I gather the fruit and the seeds. My two little brothers help me gather the fruit and the seeds too. My brothers also take care of the herd and me and my little brothers plant the crops and mend them to make sure we have good crops when they are done. I have to stay close to the cave because my father is sick and I have to take care of him and help him get better. We like to start things early so we usually get up early in the morning. We have to work hard all day to make sure we keep things on track. Things used to be a lot easier to handle, but that was before our father got sick. I think he is having trouble getting better because he is still feeling sad about the death of my mother. My older brother is going to be getting married soon. Me and my other brothers like the woman he is going to marry, she is a pretty nice lady. She is nice to me and my four brothers. Plus she makes my older brother really happy and if he is happy we are happy. Since he is going to be starting his own family soon then he has to find themselves a new home to live in. He says he probably just build them a new little home since it is just the two of them. He says he wants to build it close to our cave so he can still be around to help us out. His soon to be wife helps me and my two little brothers out with the gathering of the fruit and seeds. She doesn’t get to help us out a lot though because she has her own family to help out until she gets married to my brother. My brother said that he wanted to get their home finished before they got

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