Foraging

Westerners have long been fascinated with hunting-gathering bands.

We've looked at them to speculate about the past of our own society, the pathways of human evolution, and, sometimes, as a justification for our own society.

In the 1640s, imagining primitive people, Thomas Hobbes imagining primitive people wrote: "No arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary: poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

But was he right?