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I think you're being generous. "American west" covers a lot of area. The idea that the people there 'lacked resources for widespread access to fire' is prepos
by eesmith 5y ago
I think you're being generous.
"American west" covers a lot of area.
The idea that the people there 'lacked resources for widespread access to fire' is preposterous. And t-3's own example shows the Jumanos 'developed a high skill in tanning buffalo and deer hides from which they made clothing and moccasins', the and the Mansos women 'cover themselves from the waist down with two deerskins', so definitely with access to resources from which to make clothing.
That they didn't is a different thing.
- ncmncm 5y agoThe only recent human population that lacked fire was the Tasmanians. They of course had fire when Tasmania was still connected to Australia, but lost the secret, probably in some catastrophe that wiped out hereditary fire-keepers. Tasmanians were almost exterminated by British occupiers conducting safaris.