Mar 29, 2025
Consider briefly two hunter-gatherer groups living in conditions almost inconceivably different from the Inughuit (figure 3.1). First, take the San of the central Kalahari. The Kalahari Desert of southern Africa is an upland savanna with a continental climate, alternating between extreme heat and freezing cold.
Consider another hunter-gatherer society closely observed in modern times: the Agta of the Philippines. The Agta are short-statured people who live on an isolated peninsula of Luzon Island.
"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper
