Re: another language reconstruction question

Roger Mills scripsit:

> IIRC, Yanomami villages tended to be on the order of 2-300; and I have the
> impression other Amazonian groups (among the last untrammeled
> hunter-gatherers) tend to be equally small.  Another largely untrammeled
> group, the Eskimo-- how large are their communities?   The well-known
> S.African group, whose name I forget, no longer live in an unrestricted
> environment.
In fact all modern h-g types are living in marginal environments that are
simply too difficult for agriculturalists to take over from.  Extrapolating
from that to the h-g situation on non-marginal land is very difficult
to impossible.

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