[Little Ray]

Best comparison might be the Kalahari Bushmen. From what I read, subsistence took two hours of work a day; the rest of the day was spent with families, visiting, etc. Makes you wonder why we ever went into agriculture (Personally, I think it had something to do with beer...).

[allmendream]

Of interesting note is that skeletons of hunter gatherers are generally healthier and larger than those from agricultural societies, as well as the hunter gatherer lifestyle being rather laid back.

But the same square footage can support 10 unhealthy less well nourished agriculturalists for every 1 robust hunter gatherer.

So when it comes to war, the trend of history has been for those 10 agriculturalists to beat the tar out of and replace that 1 hunter gatherer.

As Teddy Roosevelt pointed out ‘it is ridiculous to assume that the North American continent would remain the last great refuge on earth of a hunter gatherer (and horticulturalist) society’.