Earthlings: Early Causes Of Migrating

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                   

Our ancestors were not first on this planet.  Digs have told specialists that there were skeletons found that were bodies before Homo sapiens (that's us) , and a number of human-type ancestors existed, including Homo neanderthalensis, Homo erectus, Australopithecus, and even earlier hominins like Ardipithecus. Homo sapiens evolved from Homo heidelbergensis in Africa, while Homo neanderthalensis evolved from a different branch of Homo heidelbergensis in Europe                                                              

 Viewed zoologically, we humans are Homo sapiens, a culture-bearing upright-walking species that lives on the ground and very likely first evolved in Africa about 315,000 years ago. 

In the beginning, we were hunters or gatherers in different developments. Homo sapiens, or anatomically modern humans, are thought to have emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago. However, complex behaviors and cultures, known as "behavioral modernity," didn't appear until much later, between 50,000 and 65,000 years ago. 

 A hunter-gatherer or forager is a human living in a community, or according to an ancestrally derived lifestyle, in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, that is, by gathering food from local naturally occurring sources, especially wild edible plants but also insects, fungi, honey, bird eggs, or anything safe to eat, or by hunting game (pursuing or trapping and killing wild animals, including catching fish). This is a common practice among most vertebrates that are omnivores. Hunter-gatherer societies stand in contrast to the more sedentary agricultural societies, which rely mainly on cultivating crops and raising domesticated animals for food production, although the boundaries between the two ways of living are not completely distinct.
                                                                                       

                                                                                                                          

Hyksos or Jews or some of both entering Egypt enough to be pictured on their wallsThe Hyksos, meaning "Rulers of Foreign Lands," migrated into Egypt from Western Asia, primarily settling in the Nile Delta, during the Second Intermediate Period (c. 1782-1570 BCE). They established a capital at Avaris and ruled Lower Egypt. The Hyksos likely took advantage of a period of political instability in Egypt, as the pharaohs were weakened by internal conflicts. 

When it stopped raining and food wouldn't grow, they moved to Egypt where the pharaoh gave them land for their sheep to graze.  Jacob and his family, numbering 70, went to Egypt around 1876 BC Gentile calendar/c1687 Jewish calendar. This event is described in the Bible in the book of Genesis, specifically in chapters 46 and 47. 

David, king of Israel, (1010 BCE-970 BCE)  checking on threshing wheat to make sure enough would be available.  Yes, Jewish law does include provisions that allow for the collection of gleanings (leftover grains) and the edges of fields to be harvested by the poor, including the elderly, according to Leviticus 19:9-10 and Deuteronomy 22-24. The search for food was the cause of much migration in the beginning until mankindbecame farmers.  

A part of the Gatherers would be King David's job (1010 BCE-970 BCE) (below) included checking on threshing in the wheat field, making sure people would be able to eat.