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| Apr 4, 2020 at 17:16 | comment | added | Relaxed | @Mark I am sure but the argument (not based on the historical record but on observation of the amount of effort/time it takes to feed a group) is that they were not as close to starvation as agricultural societies have been for most of history. Obviously, the population density sustained on a given area is much smaller. I haven't looked into all this carefully enough to have an opinion but I find the notion intriguing and it certainly belies the notion implicit in the question that there is a universally agreed yardstick of what a prosperous civilization is. | |
| Apr 4, 2020 at 0:54 | comment | added | Mark | Hunter-gatherer societies are also subject to food insecurity and starvation. It just tends not to make the history books because hunter-gatherers tend not to record their history. | |
| Apr 3, 2020 at 22:41 | history | answered | Relaxed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |