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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago

no they didn't, hunter-gatherers had (and have) remarkably chill lives.

the thing is just that when things sucked they REALLY sucked, but it's not like that's not true in many places on earth right now despite all our technological advancements.. People are currently starving to death and being bombed in gaza.

As we do more archaeology we're realizing that people were building permanent settlements way way way way before the "dawn of civilization" in the middle east.
They were figuring out a really fucking sweet balance between a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle and the "modern" fixed farming lifestyle, where they had a bunch of settlements that they moved between depending on the seasons, and as they went along they planted things strategically so the entire environment around them would be what we'd call a "food forest" these days.