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Re: another language reconstruction question

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Friday, November 1, 2002, 23:03
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. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan Promises become binding when there is a meeting of the minds and consideration is exchanged. So it was at King's Bench in common law England; so it was under the common law in the American colonies; so it was through more than two centuries of jurisprudence in this country; and so it is today. --_Specht v. Netscape_