Honor-kinship communities have several characteristics that prove to be both necessary and practical for a group of people who are dealing with scarcity. To live within an honor-kinship community is to have your life governed from birth to death. This is done to safeguard the survival of the group and does not allow for individualism. All aspects of life that we take for granted are strictly regulated and enforced such as: sexuality, marriage and mate selection, birthing of children, and transfer of property. The regulation of these four aspects of human life is fundamental to resource management in environments that are delicate. In order for future generations to inherit the resources the current generations must live sustainably. This is done by the use of honor and shame to discipline descent and ensure the group follows the traditions and rituals within the society. These traditions confirm relationship of members of the community to ancestor’s family, kin or clan and promote intergenerational continuity through linage. In kinship communities, status is determined by relationships to ancestors according to blood ties. The economic and social identities of members are dependent upon these linages. This system is called segmented linage and is vertically structured to apply legitimacy in governance. The statuses of the members are ascribed to them based upon their ancestors and determine their role within the community. The linages do not just stop at the ancestors, it is also carried out through consanguineal (blood) and affinal (in-law) linages. This ties back into the marriage traditions of the group for survival and for the transferring of property. In most honor-kinship societies, they follow a patrimonial descent in which wealth; property; and status is handed down thru males on the father’s side. In rare cases a matrilineal system is practiced, but the males will still dominate resulting in a primordial society. The kinship system as a whole favors the father over the family, the family over the children, and the sons over the daughter. The strengths of honor-kinship communities would help this type of system prevail for hundreds of years and allow for the sustainability of numerous generations .The primary instincts and roles for these beginning tribes revolved around agriculture and hunting and gathering. Nomadic tribes also existed and followed the honor-kinship structure. Tribes rarely contacted other tribes due to differences in biological looks, dialects, and very different family lineages. Sometimes potential conflict arose between these tribes due to the critical scarcity for resources. The nomads would normally have the advantage over hunter gathers because they were never stationary. Nomadic tribes used their mobility as their strategic resource, which ena