The Good Old Days of Hunting and Gathering By Brian Simpson

     All of the miserable stuff I report, mainly dealing with technocracy and its destructive effects upon the human being and spirit makes one wonder if civilisation has been worth a candle. Seriously, that is a real question:
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2019/05/20/life-easier-humans-hunted-gathered-food-cambridge-university/

“Switching from hunting to farming made life 50 per cent more difficult for humans, a study by Cambridge University suggests. The move to agriculture, dubbed the Neolithic revolution, began around 11,000 years ago in the Middle East and had spread to Britain by around 4,000BC. But although farming allowed previously nomadic communities to stay put and grow, a new study of hunter gatherer communities in the Philippines suggests it came at a huge cost. Anthropologist Dr Mark Dyble, lived with 10 Agta groups and found that those who still hunted and foraged their food spent around 20 hours working in the week to live, but those who had switched to farming needed to work 30 hours for the same amount...    

     That was all I could get because my son put ad blocker on the computer, which the newspapers sites don’t like, so I will have to figure out how to get it off as he is out now. Anyway, I rest my case.

PS: One hour later, still trying to find how to get ad blocker off.