July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
6h 56m
English
Duncan Baker-Brown
Ever since our hunter-gatherer ancestors began to try alternative lifestyles around 10,000 years ago, humans have had ever-increasing problems finding resources. Although exhausting and dangerous, the hunter-gatherer technique followed the route of accessible resources. Settling down and relying on one place to provide everything required to satisfy human needs has always proved to be a big challenge. On occasion it has resulted in hunger and localised extinction of whole societies.
There are, however, many examples of long-established communities that have lived in harmony with their natural environments. Some of ...