Dec 25, 2019, 2:57 PM

  1. It’s not clear our ancestors in europe practice anything resembling religion until the agrarian migration. We can walk religion back to burial (debt,credit), feast (credit), sacrifice (debt,credit)) and myth. And we understand where the utility of religion evolved from those. The etymology of the word “god” is “pour” meaning “pour some for the gods” (sacrifice), which is an anthropomorphization of ‘sharing’ with others (probably alphas), thus not incurring guilt (debt).

HUNTER GATHERERS LIVED IN SETTLEMENTS IN WETLANDS

  1. It’s not true that hunter gatherers were constantly mobile. In the three locations I understand clearly (south central african marsh, marsh arabs, anatolian-marshes, black sea marshes, britain-doggerland-german-scandinavian marshes, there were fixed houses (many of them) and in the north of england some of these houses were used for more than five hundred years.

  2. It sure appears that migratory hunters (following herds) and settled hunters (wetlands), both existed.