tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2216751897705338056.post6347583022707950789..comments2023-10-17T03:41:01.759-04:00Comments on reflexiones finales: Collapse of Empires: The Mayarussell1200http://www.blogger.com/profile/16258915475311426433noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2216751897705338056.post-17772985207706834672012-11-22T08:40:11.131-05:002012-11-22T08:40:11.131-05:00Farming communities could sometimes safe up enough...Farming communities could sometimes safe up enough for a couple years of drought.<br /><br />There really is no evidence at all that hunter-gatherers were better attunded to their cycles. There is rather strong evidence of them using wasteful massacre techniques in both hunting and fishing that left large amounts of game rotting on the ground. It is not a complete accident that everywhere humans introduced themselves, almost all the big game animals disappeared. Certainly a lot of it was climate change, but the big animals never recovered.<br /><br />The hunter gatherers advantage is that their numbers were lower to begin with.<br /><br />A drought could hurt their food supply, but with less of a build up in population, they had less distance to fall. The swing in food production on a farming community would be much larger.<br /><br />russell1200https://www.blogger.com/profile/16258915475311426433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2216751897705338056.post-16865193084744848922012-11-21T14:10:29.227-05:002012-11-21T14:10:29.227-05:00i agree with the simplicity of your conclusion.
f...i agree with the simplicity of your conclusion.<br /><br />fact is, humans almost never save for a rainy day (or in some cases - a non-rainy day)<br /><br />we expand to the limit and them some, without a buffer, almost all civilizations wither. <br /><br />i think hunter- gatherers adapted a bit better as they were in tune with cycles to begin with... agriculture only made us worse off in times of crisis.<br /><br />cheers!jambaloneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13084215893557618903noreply@blogger.com