Re: Agricultural Origins
- From: Tom McDonald <kiltmac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:38:39 -0500
Day Brown wrote:
I dont see other farmers driven out til way later. There was just too
much land yet unfarmed to pioneer in.
You didn't retain what you are replying to, so I'm not sure when your 'later' refers to.
But do you think that any unfarmed land would be of roughly equal utility to everyone at a given time?
The definition gets fuzzed too when they dig into a bone midden and
find the traces of over 100 wild plants & animals mixed in with
domestic strains. How much domestic food does a community need to rely
on to call them "farmers"?
37.692%.
Actually, I don't think your question is particularly useful. Even today, people who make their living in the country collect and/or hunt wild foods to some extent. If some farm family collected and hunted for 50.1% of their annual calories, would that make them not-farmers?
Arkansas Ozarks was one of the last places where people let hogs run
wild in the woods to fatten up on acorns. Then, during winter, some
sows returned with their litters to where they remembered being fed
the previous winter. Some winters were so mild they didnt bother. So,
are the razorbacks "domesticated"?
Did they hunt them in order to make bacon?
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