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> Ever since Neolithic times, people have kept the average time spent per day for travel the same, even though the distance may increase due to the advancements
by JamilD 8y ago
> Ever since Neolithic times, people have kept the average time spent per day for travel the same, even though the distance may increase due to the advancements in the means of transportation.
I wonder how they deduced this. There isn’t a citation, and it seems pretty extraordinary to be able to figure out the mean travel time of people in the Neolithic era.
- mirimir 8y agoAs a wild-ass guess, consider some ~uniform fertile plane. Look at the distribution of communities. The mean travel time is arguably at least proportional to the mean separation. I'm not sure, but they might even be equal.
- pavel_lishin 8y agoThey might have looked at data from current neolithic and other low-tech communities.