Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 04, 2023

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Wamen’s work

If I ‘gather’ she’s going to make that vegetarian goulash again. I’ll just pretend that I forgot, and we’ll have meat and potatoes again, like normal.

I thought it was “Men hunt and women gather.”

Perhaps one-time he forgot to “gather” what he had hunted!

Me hunt. You gather. We both eat. Good plan.

I eat bark and live in a cave down by the river.

According to an Anthropology Class I took, those who didn’t pull their weight in Hunter/Gatherer societies in both respects could easily find themselves on the menu when push came to shove. Our ancestors weren’t necessarily nice people.

Don’t forget to “gather” what you’ve hunted, otherwise everyone starves. That’s what the sign says, isn’t it?

Just be be glad it was only ‘gather’ and not an anniversary, a birthday, etc., etc., etc. You know, all those “important” dates ;)

Gotta love the fact that masonry nails were invented that long ago.

Well, we know who bonks who on the head with a club in that family.

Hunting was an opportunistic occupation back then, even as it is now for those who go off the grid, but it was more the men who would hunt the big game. Even then, size matters.

ROFLMAO!

Life getting so complicated. Modern times.

3. Complain

Hey … it’s a long list. Remembering half of it is pretty good.

man was first and screwed up. Then came woman and life changed

Oh! “Gather”! I thought she said “collect”. Totally different skills. Of course, I don’t do either very well.

Especially, don’t forget the gather.

Don’t worry guy, just do your part of hunting and leave the gathering to the women folk.

Underlined twice. And three arrows. That is serious.

The women, who were the primary gatherers, were also effectively the leaders. They would decide where to make camp each evening. They also generated most of the calories for the clan.When humans began building more permanent structures, it became a bit easier for the men because they didn’t have to hunt for their campsite.However, please note, most everything we know about hunter/gatherer societies is conjecture based on the little bit of archeological evidence and human psychology.

The best known metaphor for hunters vs. gatherers is in the Book of Genesis, in which farmer (crop-eating gatherer) Cain murdered his brother, shepherd (meat-eating hunter) Abel. This parallels the shift from the nomadic lifestyle (relying on whatever haphazardly encountered game could be killed) to the more sedentary one (that relied on staying in the same place long enuf to raise crops, eventually giving rise to cities). Dogs were more useful to the hunters, which is why they’ve been domesticated for about 30,000 years. Cats didn’t start becoming useful until it turned out that they could prey on the rodents who were eating (and crapping in) the stored grain, so they’ve only been domesticated (sort of) for the last 10,000.

3. Repeat… Ad Infinitum

And So It Begins.

So much easier to prepare veggies for dining.

THREE—-Clean up Saber-Tooth Tiger Poop

Cave woman: “You had two jobs!”

Hunt, Kill, Gather it, Bring it home stupid…

“Oh never mind! I’ll do it myself.” Women probably invented basket weaving and macrame to make carriers for the kids and the stuff the gathered. The guys just dragged the mastodon home.

Another key moment in evolution.

Put a sticky note on his spear.

Not getting lost: Gatherers turn around and follow the empty bushes home. Hunters must remember visual cues: crooked trees, big rocks, etc.

Tip: If lost in the wilderness, go downhill; downhill leads to water, and water leads to habitation. Tenderfoots and civilians tend to climb uphill, to try to see farther, and end up lost.

“I mean, she invented writing JUST to nag me about it!”