a tribe (and language) without numbers or time
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,414291,00.html
Fascinating. But hopelessly stagnant. I would be more interested as to why such a small and limited group hadn't been wiped out by its neighbors centuries earlier*. How was any technology or tools developed? Is there any decision making within the community? If so, how are the results arrived at.
*The fact that one guy (a virtual stranger) can steal a few bows in front of the entire community planning to murder him - and get away scot-free doesn't argue for a particularly robust group of people - organizationally or mentally.
I know I'm running way ahead of the meager data offered in this article. But it sounds almost as if one has discovered the intellectual equivalent of the missing link between humans and our ape-like ancestors.
(Thanks for the link, John!)
Fascinating. But hopelessly stagnant. I would be more interested as to why such a small and limited group hadn't been wiped out by its neighbors centuries earlier*. How was any technology or tools developed? Is there any decision making within the community? If so, how are the results arrived at.
*The fact that one guy (a virtual stranger) can steal a few bows in front of the entire community planning to murder him - and get away scot-free doesn't argue for a particularly robust group of people - organizationally or mentally.
I know I'm running way ahead of the meager data offered in this article. But it sounds almost as if one has discovered the intellectual equivalent of the missing link between humans and our ape-like ancestors.
(Thanks for the link, John!)
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