It wouldn’t be like now though, people slaving away, hustling 3 jobs just to keep a room in a shared house, which is how more and more people live now. Also I don’t agree survival would be more work without modern society. Anthropologists say that hunter gatherer societies worked much less than we do now. Which makes sense, most countries now people are paying more than half their income in tax, and the rest goes on rent and transport. In a primitive society you wouldn’t have need of any of those things, you wouldn’t be giving away half your earnings in tax. You’d just take what you need for food and clothes.
Basically citing hunting, skinning, sewing with bone, sinew, and stone tools, walking for days to gather, avoiding predators, planting and harvesting with bone, stone, iron tools, fishing with hands, spears, building with hand-hewn trees and stone, hand made bricks fired in the sun, starting fires without matches or lighters, making potash to make soap, harvesting flax and other grains, as well as wools, lanolin, pine tar, spinning flax and wool (you can watch homesteading videos to see), then sorting drying and other preservation techniques without some crafty competitors like ants, squirrel, bacteria thwarting us, building homes with ax and ox and sheer willpower, removeding gaps, waterproofing, etc.
But maybe I’m wrong. Having come up on a family farm, I’m inclined to think maybe researchers should try it. Maybe both.
Anthropologists say they worked for just a few hours a day, and had a lot more free time than people now. And everything they made, they kept. They didn’t have to hand it all over in taxes and rent. Also I think we are talking about different historical periods. I’m talking about hunter gatherers, cavepeople, wearing skins and living in caves. I think the people you’re talking about, making cloth and building houses, are a lot more recent and probably lived under a similar system to ours, paying taxes and rent.
Well, I was starting during neolithic and moving forward. Maybe anthropologists are right, wrong and somewhere in the middle. And I’m just a rando, so there’s that.
It wouldn’t be like now though, people slaving away, hustling 3 jobs just to keep a room in a shared house, which is how more and more people live now. Also I don’t agree survival would be more work without modern society. Anthropologists say that hunter gatherer societies worked much less than we do now. Which makes sense, most countries now people are paying more than half their income in tax, and the rest goes on rent and transport. In a primitive society you wouldn’t have need of any of those things, you wouldn’t be giving away half your earnings in tax. You’d just take what you need for food and clothes.
Bless it, I just typed a long reply and lost it.
Basically citing hunting, skinning, sewing with bone, sinew, and stone tools, walking for days to gather, avoiding predators, planting and harvesting with bone, stone, iron tools, fishing with hands, spears, building with hand-hewn trees and stone, hand made bricks fired in the sun, starting fires without matches or lighters, making potash to make soap, harvesting flax and other grains, as well as wools, lanolin, pine tar, spinning flax and wool (you can watch homesteading videos to see), then sorting drying and other preservation techniques without some crafty competitors like ants, squirrel, bacteria thwarting us, building homes with ax and ox and sheer willpower, removeding gaps, waterproofing, etc.
But maybe I’m wrong. Having come up on a family farm, I’m inclined to think maybe researchers should try it. Maybe both.
Anthropologists say they worked for just a few hours a day, and had a lot more free time than people now. And everything they made, they kept. They didn’t have to hand it all over in taxes and rent. Also I think we are talking about different historical periods. I’m talking about hunter gatherers, cavepeople, wearing skins and living in caves. I think the people you’re talking about, making cloth and building houses, are a lot more recent and probably lived under a similar system to ours, paying taxes and rent.
Well, I was starting during neolithic and moving forward. Maybe anthropologists are right, wrong and somewhere in the middle. And I’m just a rando, so there’s that.