Monday, December 08, 2003

Thoughts on early civilization and hunter gatherers. Posted here Monday, December 08, 2003 at 10:31:56 AM     Thought Hunter gather societies seem to have done two things. 1. killed off much of the animal that could have been domesticated 2. tore apart any signs of settlement life they came across. The result is that Australia never developed settled communities, and in the US only a few places were safe from HG incursions, such as the Pueblo people in North America. Thus civilizational developments were rare and required excellent agricultural opportunities, access to domesticatable animals and... the rest of the story is details, but in those e details feeling humans like ourselves lived, dreamt, godded their spaces, and came to terms with the pains of living. For details read A Brief History of the Human Race by Michale Cook ********