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  • From: Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Re: The Germans Were There First
  • Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:23:04 -0800

At 11/11/2004, you wrote:
Hunter-gatherer societies don't accumulate excess population, so human sacrifice tends to occur in nascent agricultural societies, because they haven't yet found a systematic cultural mechanism for dealing with overpopulation.

That was not a population control but a religious control. In hunter gather societies no birth control was needed as women tended to nurse children for as long as 4 years thus spacing births. Some in extreme did practice a little birth control for example some aborigines in Australia would cut a slit at the base of the penis but this was far from widely practiced.



Don Bowen
Awl Knotted Up Woodworking
Valley Center, CA http://www.braingarage.com






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