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Agriculture also brought in a massive change in how humans regarded territory. For hunter-gatherer societies there was basically no impulse to fight over territ
by s_kilk 11y ago
Agriculture also brought in a massive change in how humans regarded territory. For hunter-gatherer societies there was basically no impulse to fight over territory. Everything they needed could be foraged, and the things they foraged were plentiful.
Once we switched from foraging in a bountiful nature to scrounging a meager living from the dirt, defending that dirt or seizing more of it became a much bigger thing.
- tosseraccount 11y agoDo you have any evidence that hunter gatherer societies have "basically no impulse to fight over territory"?
- mrec 11y ago> For hunter-gatherer societies there was basically no impulse to fight over territory I'd dispute that. Don't confuse sparse population density with "bountiful nature"; hunter-gatherer economies are severely limited in that they can only sustainably forage as much as the environment can regenerate. The fact that they're territory-limited rather than labour-limited gives ample incentive to fight over territory, and also explains the popular factoid that these societies had vastly more leisure time than we do.