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I think in any low trust environment where social mobility outside the group is poor, sticking together based on blood lines probably was the default for sure.
by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
I think in any low trust environment where social mobility outside the group is poor, sticking together based on blood lines probably was the default for sure.
However I think there's plenty of evidence that migration and intermingling between tribes occurred frequently. If only as social practices to prevent inbreeding. Probably a bunch of bride kidnapping sadly but also young males leaving to seek opportunity isn't an exclusively modern phenomenon.
- Wytwwww 2y ago> also young males leaving to seek opportunity isn't an exclusively modern phenomenon. True but as far as we can tell it was usually (if not entirely exclusively) done through the same social networks that existed locally [unless you were leaving to murder/rape/rob people]. Unless they really, really had to you only moved to another city/location because you had a cousin, uncle etc. or someone else there you had some ties with. Outside of organizations like the church or the army (and even then) a complete outsider was at an extreme disadvantage (relative to today).