Re:Why Hunter-Gatherers' Work Was Play
by hef19898 on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @02:50PM
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As I said elsewhere, tooth samples and bones from those periods tell a different story, namely famine, or serious malnitrition, happening frequently.
Re:Why Hunter-Gatherers' Work Was Play
by crazygringo on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @05:39PM
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"Hunter–gatherers have less famine than agriculturalists" -- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3917328/
"Here, we analyse famine frequency and severity in a large cross-cultural database, in order to explore relationships between subsistence and famine risk. This is the first study to report that, if we control for habitat quality, hunter–gatherers actually had significantly less -- not more -- famine than other subsistence modes."
Re:Why Hunter-Gatherers' Work Was Play
by hef19898 on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @05:54PM
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There is no sepcific time frame mentioned in the paper, the closest thing I saw was the NASA satelite data from the early 2000s. And that period in time can hardly be uses to draw conclusions about HG and agriculturalist lifestyles throughout history.
That's the wrong part. I believe there's no known history of famine in hunter-gatherers. That only really became a thing with agriculture.
Hunter-gatherer populations were small; there was plenty of food generally speaking. Which is why relatively so little time had to be spent acquiring it, in comparison with the back-breaking worth of agriculture.
Of course, once agriculture started using up all the land that was previously being used for hunting and gathering, well then hunting and gathering was no longer viable. But that was something new with the introduction of agriculture.