Hunter-gatherers

Eric Franz Leher fr102anz at netvigator.com
Wed Jan 23 03:47:10 PST 2002


Greg Schofield wrote:


> The main feature which made farmers successful is not their
> health or their environmental abilities, but that farming allowed higher
> concentrations of people, not necessarily more people, but more people in
> the one spot for longer.
>
> In otherwords the advantage was military.
>
Entirely correct. So even if agriculture was a comparatively dumb idea (more hours devoted to gaining food, for what may have been in fact a net loss of nutritional value per individual; production of surplus and the advent of class society), we end up stuck with it just because the farmers outfought the hunters from weight of numbers.

Eric Leher



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