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I don't think Alone is particularly representative of a hunter-gatherer back in the day. For starters, they're alone rather than existing in a group of people w
by ribosometronome 3y ago
I don't think Alone is particularly representative of a hunter-gatherer back in the day. For starters, they're alone rather than existing in a group of people who have had to feed themselves their entire life foraging and hunting. Even if the people are our modern experts in survival, it's hard to replace daily lived knowledge gathered from generations of people. And they're dropped in an unfamiliar (and often particularly harsh?) area. The season I saw had people stranded in the Alaskan wilderness right for the start of winter. Or the frost? One of the notable things about hunter-gatherers is that they were migratory, no? They probably would opt out of trying to survive the winter like that.
- WalterBright 3y agoI was more referring to being able to live off of gathered plants alone. Not farmed plants, and not meat. The contestants had intractable problems with this: 1. not enough calories 2. a seriously unbalanced diet and they'd slowly come unglued.