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GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Well maybe not other examples, but my comment was more along the lines that I think that we (modern humans) idealize hunter-gathers. When what was probably more reality was that they had difficult times as well. I would say that agriculture and animal domestication came out of a need to reduce the task of having to hunt down your food.

If you get to just walk out of your hut and harvest plants or you don’t have to run down a wild pig, instead just butcher one in the pen you’re going to do that. But the downside then is you need to spend more time tending to the animals and plants to make sure they survive. So you give up some downtime.

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