Re:When six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months (2020)
by dmoy on Thursday June 03, 2021 @11:28AM
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You get villages because foraging really sucks. It's an ease-of-survival thing around food production.
Re:When six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months (2020)
by bluGill on Thursday June 03, 2021 @12:44PM
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Foraging is done from villages as well. They tend to not have tents/houses, just a community fire that moves when the tribe moves. Still a village.
Foraging sucks less than subsistence farming. However farmers are able to put a lot more people into given land area and so farming villages won out.
Villages appear long before defensive fortifications in the record, in many cases. Pure reason is not very good at forming predictive theories about history, as a general rule.
There are many possible reasons for villages, and cultural reasons are a very big determinant of how people live. So are economic reasons. Many of us live in big cities now, and it's generally less safe.