Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered the native hunter-gatherer population

Re:Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered the native hunter... by optimalsolver on Saturday February 17, 2024 @07:50PM (#39415014)

My prior would've been hunters slaughtering farmers.

How could these stone cold hunters let a bunch farmers get the drop on them???

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Re:Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered the native hunter... by TulliusCicero on Saturday February 17, 2024 @08:04PM (#39415101)

Civilization presents a number of advantages, especially in numbers.

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Re:Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered the native hunter... by thaumasiotes on Saturday February 17, 2024 @07:52PM (#39415021)

This has been known for quite some time.

The farmers always win because there are more of them. Hunters have very low population densities.

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Re:Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered the native hunter... by nradov on Saturday February 17, 2024 @07:59PM (#39415072)

It turns out that hunting isn't very good training for mass warfare. What matters is discipline, organization, and technology.

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Re:Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered the native hunter... by xboxnolifes on Saturday February 17, 2024 @11:12PM (#39416130)

Farming = more/stable food = higher population = standing army.

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Re:Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered the native hunter... by euroderf on Sunday February 18, 2024 @04:26AM (#39417565)

and time and tools to tinker with tech ?

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Re:Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered the native hunter... by optimalsolver on Sunday February 18, 2024 @06:42AM (#39418272)

Hunter gatherers have far more free time than agriculturalists.

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Re:Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered the native hunter... by euroderf on Sunday February 18, 2024 @02:43PM (#39422377)

Depends on the local climate ? Can't be easy to be a H/G and not have a surplus for the winter.

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Re:Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered the native hunter... by raoulkent on Sunday February 18, 2024 @05:43AM (#39417991)

This was a time before armies in Scandinavia.

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Re:Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered the native hunter... by anon84873628 on Sunday February 18, 2024 @02:45AM (#39417048)

Acoup, which seems to be an HN favorite, has a series basically about this. It describes why/how the Roman state became so successful at warfare and conquest:

https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-...

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