> Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 10:01:44 -0400
> From: Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
> On Thu, 4 May 2000 13:24:10 +0200 Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
> writes:
> > How large a territory does a hunter supporting a family need?
> > There is only one animal on Earth abundant enough to allow hunting
> > to
> > be our main source of protein (cf. Swift). That solution should
> > speed
> > up the transition quite a lot too.
Please don't linebreak quoted text like that --- reflow it like this:
> Although hunter-gatherers rely a lot more on gathering than on
> hunting. With seashore people it gets more complicated, since you've
> got fish, but in general, on land, it's the gathering which is the
> source of most of the nutrition.
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?
> -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)