Reddit reviews Throwim Way Leg: An Adventure

If you are interested in this sort of thing the Papua New Guinea highlands only made contact recently.

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Interesting model for how most of pre-civilisation humanity lived - walk into the next valley, get a spear in the leg.

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The Minyamin tribe in the centre became cannibals because the animals were hunted out by surrounding tribes.

They contracted Kuru, laughing disease, a protein-based virus essentially that helped us discover Mad Cow Disease.

Even then, they maintained a taboo on hunting an endangered possum because they knew they'd be extinct - some deep thinking going across generations there.

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Throwim Way Leg by Tim Flannery is a good read - the grandparents still remembered how to strap a human torso and limbs up like a backpack and wrapping heads in leaves for soup.

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None of this gets recorded in societies without writing, Mesopotamia, ancient China, the Mayans, etc... all exception to the rule that the vast majority of humanity lived under.

Which is of course, our lord and saviour Cthulhu, may he eat me last /s

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The amount of knowledge one tribe member had in his head was vast. we are morons in comparison:

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