| ▲ | numbsafari a day ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Care to explain more? Humans have been traveling pretty much their entire existence. Being sedentary seems to be a much more recent development. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | throw0101d 21 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> Humans have been traveling pretty much their entire existence. Being sedentary seems to be a much more recent development. With the development of agriculture, people staying in one place seems to have been the normal for a while now. Even with the hunter-gatherer societies we know about, AIUI, they tend to have a village/community from which they go out from, i.e., they are 'non-migratory'. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | wkjagt 21 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I think you're referring to the agricultural revolution, before which humans were hunter-gatherers. But even when people were moving around a lot, they didn't go very far, and I don't think it was for the same reasons. > Hunter-gatherers tends to have much greater home ranges than pre-industrial sedentary farmers. It has been estimated that pre-industrial English people living in small townships would have had a home range of 900 hectares (9 km2), close to that predicted for an omnivorous mammal of their same body mass. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | lanfeust6 a day ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sedentary isn't the word you're looking for. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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