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New Guniea tribes are post agricultural. They indicate nothing about "paleo" tendencies. There are no living or even especially recent hunter gatherer models
by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
New Guniea tribes are post agricultural. They indicate nothing about "paleo" tendencies.
There are no living or even especially recent hunter gatherer models to look at. People sometimes point to african bushmen, but they're stunted refugees scraping by on marginal wasteland. They don't match up with the consistently strong and healthy native american hunter gatherer skeletons.
- TheSOB88 17y agoWhat about the Amazon? They've remained untouched for a while.
- mtts 17y agoPresumably Jared Diamond was talking about the New Guinea tribes in the lowlands that are in fact rather "paleo" and not about the inhabitants of the mountain ranges of the interior who practice agriculture and where the men don't, in fact, hunt very much.