RE: The dawn of civilization
December 14, 2018 at 4:44 pm
(This post was last modified: December 14, 2018 at 4:45 pm by Jackalope.)
(December 14, 2018 at 4:06 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: In our minds, stone age people were largely encounter hunters...but judging by the taxonomy of their midden heaps...they were more likely trappers who engaged in opportunistic encounters.
This would be completely unsurprising due to the simplicity, efficacy, lower energy expenditure and far greater safety of setting simple snares vs hunting (much less hunting of apex predators). Ogg was't stupid.