Abbey Page @abbeyepage.bsky.social · 13/02/2024Product of years of work with @err-ring.bsky.social and @rebeccasear.bsky.social and many many amazing collaborators who shared data and insights on small-scale demography and subsistence. 120
Abbey Page @abbeyepage.bsky.social · 13/02/2024From day one in my Anthropology undergrad I was taught that farming was the driving factor behind humans demographic success -> helping us maximise fertility rates with increased energy availability and efficiency. This has become a truism which is often assumed but rarely tested 100
Abbey Page @abbeyepage.bsky.social · 13/02/2024Or when tested, there are methodological limitations. If we just compare foragers from whom we have demographic data we're stuck with tiny sample sizes making inference difficult Also - to what degree is being part of a 'foraging' group predictive of what YOU do??? 👩🌾 100
