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> Hunter gatherer bands in the Amazon live the way they have for 50,000 years

As much as “noble savage” is a comforting story, the truth is likely more complicated.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67940671

https://www.npr.org/2011/01/12/132853997/Amazon-Once-Was-Hom...

https://davidgraeber.org/books/the-dawn-of-everything-a-new-...




Technically everything is more complicated. In threads like this, people play fast and loose with terminology.




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