no there is evidence of pre-agricultural societies taking very good care of their disabled and elderly. Mind you the same has also been true for various agricultural societies
Yeah there is. Maybe not a lot of it, but there are plenty of corpses with healed broken bones. Sometimes very bad breaks. There are skeletons of people with severe disabilities, including one case of a probably female person who likely was unable to walk from infancy but died in her 20s or 30s. Her teeth also show abnormal decay which some archeologists suggest was because her family and friends were providing her with honey she would have been unable to gather herself.
Don't forget "Hey Grampa, when winter comes, we're gonna abandon you, Grandma, and all the other old people because you can no longer contribute to the tribe"
One of the really important advantages humans have is a combination of long childhood periods, language, and living a long time after our peak reproductive years. Kids take a long time to grow so they can grow much larger and more complex brains than they could with only 9 months in utero. Humans live a long time after their peak reproductive age. That means old people can care for and teach children while young people are out doing important economic stuff. It gives us an enormous advantage over similar species.
I'll recommend you an Athabaskan story about Two Old Women on the topic of how some migratory tribes would treat their elderly and/or disabled, at least in relation to the more arctic regions.
I read a really interesting dissertation about windigo sickness in the far north, which was essentially a way to talk about the rare traumatic experience of killing someone when the rest of the group was in an extremely dire, starvation situation. The fur trade in Canada did create circumstances that made these crises somewhat more frequent.
They don't drill a hole into the skull and leave it permanently. They remove a section of skull to allow the brain to swell without causing damage, then replace it after the emergency is over.
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no there is evidence of pre-agricultural societies taking very good care of their disabled and elderly. Mind you the same has also been true for various agricultural societies
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well they weren't exactly moving in random directions they would probably have set paths they migrated on seasonally
Put em in a travois or a dog cart and carry them with you.
Yeah there is. Maybe not a lot of it, but there are plenty of corpses with healed broken bones. Sometimes very bad breaks. There are skeletons of people with severe disabilities, including one case of a probably female person who likely was unable to walk from infancy but died in her 20s or 30s. Her teeth also show abnormal decay which some archeologists suggest was because her family and friends were providing her with honey she would have been unable to gather herself.
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And "You got a head ache? You have demons in your skull, let me get this pointy rock and gently let them out with blunt force trauma"
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Don't forget "Hey Grampa, when winter comes, we're gonna abandon you, Grandma, and all the other old people because you can no longer contribute to the tribe"
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One of the really important advantages humans have is a combination of long childhood periods, language, and living a long time after our peak reproductive years. Kids take a long time to grow so they can grow much larger and more complex brains than they could with only 9 months in utero. Humans live a long time after their peak reproductive age. That means old people can care for and teach children while young people are out doing important economic stuff. It gives us an enormous advantage over similar species.
Old people teach children superstition, old wives tales and sexism. There's a reason schools employ mostly younger people.
I'll recommend you an Athabaskan story about Two Old Women on the topic of how some migratory tribes would treat their elderly and/or disabled, at least in relation to the more arctic regions.
Seems that it's more of a cultural morality tale that reinforces against abandoning the elderly and sick
I read a really interesting dissertation about windigo sickness in the far north, which was essentially a way to talk about the rare traumatic experience of killing someone when the rest of the group was in an extremely dire, starvation situation. The fur trade in Canada did create circumstances that made these crises somewhat more frequent.
fucking canadians.
What fucked it up even more is that it actually helped sometimes
People still believe in trepanation even today.
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Negative.
They don't drill a hole into the skull and leave it permanently. They remove a section of skull to allow the brain to swell without causing damage, then replace it after the emergency is over.
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