Amadeus Schmidt wrote:
>
> On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 11:28:15 +0900, Tom <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > Modern Papua is hardly an
> >ideal place to analyze ancient food gathering habits. Most
> >of the tribes there are firmly agricultural, so they have
> >way overpopulated from the point of view of hunting game.
>
> Or, it's more like this: a landscape like Papua Neuguinea
> is just unsuited for population of paleo/humans who insist to
> have a "game hunting point of view".

Depends entirely on the size of the population, as you have
pointed out in the past. Once the neolithic rvolution began,
there was no way that human population could ever be
balanced out against prey species. Even occassional hunting
would decimate them. That is why rulers would declare
hunting a royal prerogative, and create vast hunting preserves.