Re: CHAT: Religion, Philosophy & Politics

On Thu, 4 May 2000 17:02:10 +0200 Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
writes:
> Please don't linebreak quoted text like that --- reflow it like this:
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Sorry, my email program does it automatically.  Usually, i try to fix the
biggest problems, but that's mostly when i'm specifically trying to save
space.

> I did say "source of protein". While roots and fruits give lots of
> starch/sugars, vitamins and fibers, it's hard to get a sufficiently
> varied protein supply that way. Or so I've been told.
>
> Anyway, how much territory does a gatherer need to support a family?
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Depends on the environment - in a 'richer' environment, less territory is
needed.  In a poorer one, more is.  Not all hunter-gatherers in human
history have been nomads - peoples like the Tlingit of NW North America
have existed very well, with large populations and all the "complexity"
of agricultural life without the domesticated crops.

> > -Stephen (Steg)
> >  "a bisl zun, a bisl regn; a ruik ort dem kop çu legn,
> >   abi gezint ken men gliklex zain..."
> This looks like an apposite quote. I looked at it before, but I still
> need to puzzle out what gezint is. The range of possibilities changes
> now that the second comma is gone.
>
> Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour
> NOT marked)
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You want i should just translate it for you?  :-)


-Stephen (Steg)
 "a bisl zun, a bisl regn; a ruik ort dem kop çu legn,
  abi gezint ken men gliklex zain..."