When archeologist first found the foragers' villages, they assumed the inhabitants were farmers because their lives were so much like the lives of early farmers. Their teeth had been ground down by a diet of seeds and nuts, but they show evidence of food shortages like the farmers.
British navigator, Captain James Cook reaches the north coast of Australia. He found natives who could not be said to possess the land because they didn't cultivate their own crops, instead foraging from the existing wild plants.
The Jomon people of central Honshu Island in Japan lived in permanent villages, feeding themselves by fishing and gathering acorns and chestnuts. Image: Another example of Jomon pottery.
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