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From: mwm@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Measure of success?
Message-ID: <803@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 31 18:59:59 1969
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References: <257@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> <761@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> <457@ssc-vax.UUCP> <780@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARRe: Measure of success? <1143@ukma.UUCP>
Reply-To: mwm@ucbtopaz.UUCP (Praiser of Bob)
Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica
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Summary: 

In article <1143@ukma.UUCP> plh@ukma.UUCP (Paul L. Hightower) writes:
>Are you sure a neolithic society is near 100% ?  According to one book, 
>"Cannibals and Kings" (I forget the author), neolithic societies spent
>approximately 3 hours a day hunting (men) or gathering & chores (women.)
>The rest was spent socializing, gossiping, playing, or making war.  

I would say "C and K" is broken. Some neolithic cultures indeed lived that
way, but only those that lived in areas where the carrying capacity of
the land was well above the population - and keeping it that way was what
led to "nasty, brutish and short" lives in those cases. I'll chase down
the references (sometime in the future...).

	<mike