You do see emergency foraging up to modern day, that’s true, although there’s a less land to do it on, and a lot more ways it has to be split.
Mixed agriculture was designed to be more resistant to catastrophe, and was still common in living memory here, but that may well have been particular to the abundance of land in the freshly “freed up” Great Plains. Obviously, if you’re getting Kwashiorkor you don’t have a coop full of chickens and a pen of cows next to your garden and fields.
I have a specific book on paleoethnobotany on my to-read list that I might be able to refer to if I ever get around to reading it, but I have a… long to-read list, and this year is shaping up to be not a great one for my reading habits. XD
Ah yes. It’s not as bad as my project list, but my reading list is also too long.
You do see emergency foraging up to modern day, that’s true, although there’s a less land to do it on, and a lot more ways it has to be split.
Mixed agriculture was designed to be more resistant to catastrophe, and was still common in living memory here, but that may well have been particular to the abundance of land in the freshly “freed up” Great Plains. Obviously, if you’re getting Kwashiorkor you don’t have a coop full of chickens and a pen of cows next to your garden and fields.
Ah yes. It’s not as bad as my project list, but my reading list is also too long.