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To: BGHater

Amazing to me...supposedly these folk had to spend hours looking for food to survive, working from sun to sun.I know there are some antropologists who insist that you can subsist on a few hours of work per day in a hunting/gathering culture. Not sure I believe that....look at how difficult non-mechanized farming is.

But they still had time to peck away at a rock with a rock. Day after day. This also says these areas must have been fairly permanent living places [villages?] because of the length of time such carvings would take. Of course they could have been revisited year after year, I suppose.

Why? Why would you waste the time? Tap a rock with a rock, even over and over and the results are pretty poor...somehow some group persisted even though the rewards [payoff] were pretty slim.


9 posted on 07/31/2008 11:05:56 AM PDT by Adder (typical bitter white person)
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To: Adder
...supposedly these folk had to spend hours looking for food to survive, working from sun to sun.I know there are some antropologists who insist that you can subsist on a few hours of work per day in a hunting/gathering culture. Not sure I believe that....look at how difficult non-mechanized farming is.

They weren't farmers. What's more, it could have been older members of the tribe would couldn't hunt/gather as efficiently who made these carvings. They also could have been made by the tribal shaman, who would have had more time on his hands.

Why? Why would you waste the time? Tap a rock with a rock, even over and over and the results are pretty poor...somehow some group persisted even though the rewards [payoff] were pretty slim.

The more sophisticated religions had not yet been invented, and people have been expressing themselves through spiritual art as long as they've been people.

15 posted on 07/31/2008 11:51:29 AM PDT by rosenfan
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To: Adder

Tap a rock with a rock, even over and over and the results are pretty poor...somehow some group persisted even though the rewards [payoff] were pretty slim.

Don't play video games do, ya?

25 posted on 07/31/2008 12:34:23 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (I am not from Vermont. I lived there for four years and that was enough.)
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To: Adder

I don’t want to work
I want to bang on these rocks all day
I don’t want to play
I just want to bang on these rockss all day


31 posted on 07/31/2008 1:40:35 PM PDT by OSHA (framing it as though you've magically neutralized any potential negative eventuality)
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To: Adder; SunkenCiv; All

“These folk had to spend hours looking for food to survive.”

I recall reading about a study of modern hunter/gatherer cultures, and I think each person spent about 27 hours a week hunting and gathering. Of course, then there was cleaning, cooking, sewing, and childcare, but since women did most of that, maybe it doesn’t count.


36 posted on 08/01/2008 10:37:49 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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