> A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science indicates Indigenous peoples in what is now B.C. had been cultivating the beaked hazelnut for thousands of years, which researchers say challenges the notion that pre-colonial Indigenous people in northwestern B.C. were only hunter-gatherers.
My impression was that every "hunter-gatherer" society which occupies a moderate-sized area of land (vs. wandering some vast desert) for any span of years practices on-the-side cultivation. Ditto for other obvious improvement to their turf - maintaining a regular system of trails, bridges and fords, fishing weirs, camp sites, etc.
> A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science indicates Indigenous peoples in what is now B.C. had been cultivating the beaked hazelnut for thousands of years, which researchers say challenges the notion that pre-colonial Indigenous people in northwestern B.C. were only hunter-gatherers.
My impression was that every "hunter-gatherer" society which occupies a moderate-sized area of land (vs. wandering some vast desert) for any span of years practices on-the-side cultivation. Ditto for other obvious improvement to their turf - maintaining a regular system of trails, bridges and fords, fishing weirs, camp sites, etc.
Has anyone heard otherwise?