[lbo-talk] pre-industrial civilization no paradise

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Dec 19 14:59:36 PST 2003


Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:35:03 +0000 From: Andrew <andrewflood at eircom.net> Subject: Re: AUT: Hunter gather life expectancy To: aut-op-sy at lists.village.Virginia.EDU

On 18 Dec 2003, at 15:02, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>Very interesting. Do you have some cites on this?
>

Child mortality rates for modern hunter gatherers http://harpend.dsl.xmission.com/pennington/humannature/lectures.fall.2003/hgdemo_nofigs.pdf

Hazda, Kung life expectancy and cause of death http://www.anthro.utah.edu/PDFs/Papers/NBJ2002.pdf

Causes of death in pre-Columbian America http://www.hist.umn.edu/~rmccaa/laphb/27fall97/laphb27a.htm

The books Steel, Germs and Guns has some quite useful material on HG populations in Poynesia (where the geography meant thousands of micro experiments and Australasia).

Andrew



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