{"id":4758,"date":"2023-06-02T18:18:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T01:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=4758"},"modified":"2023-06-02T18:18:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T01:18:21","slug":"down-in-the-arroyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2023\/06\/02\/down-in-the-arroyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Down In The Arroyo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hunting and gathering was humanity’s original and most enduring successful competitive adaptation in the natural world, occupying at least 90 percent of human history.[3] Following the invention of agriculture, hunter-gatherers who did not change were displaced or conquered by farming or pastoralist groups in most parts of the world.[4]<\/em> –Th’Wiki<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Displaced” = economic warfare
\n“Conquered” = regular warfare<\/p>\n

‘Hunting and gathering was humanity’s … most enduring successful competitive adaptation’. <\/p>\n

Which is kind of amusing in light of the fact that settlement and agriculture are typically painted as exactly that. <\/p>\n

Civilization and progress, versus the poor benighted anonymes of dark pre-history. <\/p>\n

Maybe it will prove so. The jury is still very much out and the verdict is far from written. <\/p>\n

“The Anthropocene Era” is usually said to have begun around 2000 A.D., and I used to say that too. <\/p>\n

Now I believe nothing special happened in 2000. We just started to notice that the adaptation of civilization was perhaps not nearly as enduring, or successful, as previously believed. <\/p>\n

In that sense the dawn of the Anthropocene can be seen as precisely The Beginning of the End. <\/p>\n

Nothing more and nothing less. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hunting and gathering was humanity’s original and most enduring successful competitive adaptation in the natural world, occupying at least 90 percent of human history.[3] Following the invention of agriculture, hunter-gatherers who did not change were displaced or conquered by farming or pastoralist groups in most parts of the world.[4] –Th’Wiki “Displaced” = economic warfare “Conquered” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4759,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758\/revisions\/4759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}