society - What are the advantages of being a hunter gatherer ...
2018年2月20日 · 6. There are very few advantages to being a hunter gatherer, even less if you are surrounded by agricultural communities. Hunter gatherers have smaller, weaker groups, few assets, no industry, no land as such and little cohesiveness in defense or anything else beyond the extended family group.
society - Do hunter-gatherers move or stay put in the winter ...
2018年9月18日 · A hunter-gatherer society exists in lands similar to that of Bavaria. There is plentiful game in the forests and glades, and there are many rivers with edible aquatic life. Smaller rivers can freeze periodically in the winter. Food preservation by smoking and salting are known.
How to sustain this sedentary hunter-gatherer society?
2020年11月27日 · Hunter gatherer societies end up with a decent amount of leisure time in places of natural bounty. Most of these societies don't exist any more because the places that make for this are also extremely attractive to societies with agriculture and better technology.
Could hunter-gatherers develop complex civilization?
2017年8月30日 · This is a chicken and egg kind of problem. Civilization allowed for more efficient farming and the development of technology, but agriculture was necessary for civilization, at least as we know it. It was not merely a factor of how plentiful food is. Hunter gatherer societies were very labor intensive societies.
Could a society work with members that cannot use language?
2021年11月9日 · The society is a simple society. It is more-or-less a hunter-gatherer society, with a large hierarchy of leadership. They mostly live in independent families. Every family, including the leaders, gather food independently, and there is almost no trade. The leaders gain power through trust and respect from the populace, and rarely make use of it.
Effectiveness of flaming spears as a psychological weapon in a …
2017年9月22日 · I'm going to assume that by hunter gatherer society they don't do much metalworking. This means that their spear is going to be made of mostly wood, bone, sinew, and rock. A flaming spear made of such materials is going to be structurally weakened and unbalanced by the attachment of a wick.
science fiction - How can I explain space travel being accepted and ...
Picture a setting similar to that of many fantasy works: a relatively low level of technology among the general population, lots of manual labor, agriculture or hunter/gatherer society, and that most people are generally content with the way of life. Note that …
Is there a plausible source of feminizing HRT that would be …
Are there any options that would actually be feasible for a hunter-gather society? Edit 1: HRT is hormone replacement therapy. So feminizing HRT would be HRT that changes the body's hormone regime to an estrogen-dominated one.
How good would ice weapons be? - Worldbuilding Stack Exchange
2016年12月6日 · This puts Europe into an ice age, and averts the impeding disaster. However, Europe was not ready, and when World War III comes (2900-3000) they have already been reduced to a hunter-gatherer society (albeit one with higher technology weapons than your average pre- or post- Rome tribe).
technology - How quickly could a bronze age society be reborn …
2023年12月23日 · An advanced bronze age society with significant understanding of magic. As a cooling period looms they seek to prevent it with magic, which backfires, plunging the world into a millenia long ice age caused by a volcanic winter with multiple eruptions, combined with an already cooling temperature. 99% of the population dies or is killed.