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The guest said the book gathers evidence about huntergatherer life, noting it can be dry but valuable for understanding humanity's distant past.
Book two is called The Life Ways of HunterGatherers by Robert Kelly. I want to be up front. It has a lot of really dry theoretical parts. There's many parts I skipped entirely. There's many parts that...
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The guest said the book gathers evidence about huntergatherer life, noting it can be dry but valuable for understanding humanity's distant past.
Book two is called The Life Ways of HunterGatherers by Robert Kelly. I want to be up front. It has a lot of really dry theoretical parts. There's many parts I skipped entirely. There's many parts that I've read like maybe a dozen times by now. It's trying to pull together all the evidence we have about what life is like for people who live in a huntergatherer lifestyle, which is often assumed to represent what the distant past of humanity looks like before the Neolithic Revolution 10,000 years or so ago.