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To give an extreme example, Hunter-Gatherers generally didn't spend all their time hunting. There's every indication they spent only as much as early farmers at
by AlotOfReading 6y ago
To give an extreme example, Hunter-Gatherers generally didn't spend all their time hunting. There's every indication they spent only as much as early farmers at most. In some cases it was a few tens of hours per week per person. Population growth is a separate, rather more complicated topic.
- outworlder 6y agoBut then you cannot have libraries, you cannot have universities, you cannot have laboratories or factories. Not if you have to constantly relocate to find more food.
- AlotOfReading 6y agoMany of the groups we call "Hunter-Gatherers" weren't nomadic, despite popular imagination. Estimates for the early Holocene are that around 20-30% of all groups in some regions were at least partially sedentary. Some of the most well-studied modern groups were fully sedentary, and had high social and political complexity to boot.