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At least in crop agriculture the work tends to be concentrated during planting and harvest so there is a big period in between with nothing to do for most of th
by wavefunction 4y ago
At least in crop agriculture the work tends to be concentrated during planting and harvest so there is a big period in between with nothing to do for most of the people involved in planting and harvest. The labor for at least some of the Egyptian pyramids were idle farmers who had free-time available for hire, iirc.
- Pephers 4y agoNothing to do outside of crop agriculture in Viking times gives time for: - Building housing and barns - Chopping firewood - Shipbuilding - Wood working - Weaving fabric (linen) from the summer harvest - Ropes - Leatherworking - Metalworking/blacksmithing - Pottery - Animal husbandry - Hunting - Fishing ... and probably lots of other things that were necessary during those times. Of course Viking raids are a different means of acquiring a lot of the above.
- BurningFrog 4y agoIn Scandinavia there is zero agriculture work to do when the ground is frozen and covered in snow.