• Danquebec@sh.itjust.works
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      Not really. An exception are hunter-gatherers benefitting from the rich marine resources and salmon of Pacific North America, but for most hunter-gatherers:

      overpopulation: well, populations tend to hit the carrying capacity, whatever it may be, but I think here it refers to living conditions like with poop being in the street and stuff like that

      hierarchy: hardly any to speak of, it’s mostly family-based, with special respect for great hunters or people who solve conflicts

      authoritarian forms of government: no

      malnutrition: of course hunger and famine exists for hunter-gatherers as well, but they generally had much better nutrition than early agriculturalists

      slavery: no, they don’t have the social organization to manage this

      war: meeting strangers was always a dangerous event, and war can exist in specific times and places, more often being small-scale ritualized warfare in places of high productivity, but food production really brought that to another level