Say what you will about medieval peasants, they only paid about 20% of their incomes in taxes (tithes to the Church and their local lord), and they enjoyed something like 150 days off work thanks to all the feast days.
Sure, they had no rights to speak of, short life expectancies, and suffered from malnutrition and regularly faced death by famine, but their lives had certain advantages over us moderns.
But really if you want to get jelly, paleolithic hunter-gatherer gigachads is where it's at. Good nutrition not reached again until the 20th century, no such thing as law, more or less absolute freedom, and a 10-hour work week that mostly consisted of activities we now consider recreation and hobby.
nah, there are plenty of places where remains of megafauna are found in human occupied areas. apparently they are pretty easy to kill because they are 1) easy to find, 2) kind of slow, 3) have to spend most of their time eating just to stay alive. I recall something about one of the "last" places megafauna were alive (based on fossils such) being some island where it's easy to see that humans killed them all off, then left the island.
Oh they hunted them, yes. But the timescale doesn't match, especially considering the human population crashed at the same time. Meanwhile the evidence for the Younger Dryas impact is now overwhelming. It's also consistent with mammoths being found flash frozen, which is a neat trick for a dude with a spear but easy enough when cometary fragments and ice sheets are involved.
We did. Plains Indians didn't, and they had the same tech level as the people who supposedly annihilated the wooly mammoth. Indians coexisted with the buffalo for 10k years.
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Say what you will about medieval peasants, they only paid about 20% of their incomes in taxes (tithes to the Church and their local lord), and they enjoyed something like 150 days off work thanks to all the feast days.
Sure, they had no rights to speak of, short life expectancies, and suffered from malnutrition and regularly faced death by famine, but their lives had certain advantages over us moderns.
But really if you want to get jelly, paleolithic hunter-gatherer gigachads is where it's at. Good nutrition not reached again until the 20th century, no such thing as law, more or less absolute freedom, and a 10-hour work week that mostly consisted of activities we now consider recreation and hobby.
good nutrition until they killed off all the megafauna. oops :)
Yeah but it turns out that was cometary bombardment.
nah, there are plenty of places where remains of megafauna are found in human occupied areas. apparently they are pretty easy to kill because they are 1) easy to find, 2) kind of slow, 3) have to spend most of their time eating just to stay alive. I recall something about one of the "last" places megafauna were alive (based on fossils such) being some island where it's easy to see that humans killed them all off, then left the island.
Oh they hunted them, yes. But the timescale doesn't match, especially considering the human population crashed at the same time. Meanwhile the evidence for the Younger Dryas impact is now overwhelming. It's also consistent with mammoths being found flash frozen, which is a neat trick for a dude with a spear but easy enough when cometary fragments and ice sheets are involved.
i mean, we just about did the same thing with bison, and the giant bison herds probably naturally fertilized a lot of the "gatherer" ecosystem.
We did. Plains Indians didn't, and they had the same tech level as the people who supposedly annihilated the wooly mammoth. Indians coexisted with the buffalo for 10k years.