FWIW, what I've seen has been mostly from archaeologists, I probably just said anthropology to skygiants as a lazy shorthand for the subject as a whole. Mostly focused on shorter average lifespans after sedentary agriculture, and why they were shorter/what that means for people, and then some meta-discussion of the discourse.
(I know there's also a genre? of anthropology writing about present day hunter-gatherer people from a "hunter-gathering is a better life than you'd think, actually!" perspective, but I remember that from an intro-level community college class years ago, so at this point I wonder if there's some kind of counter-backlash of "hunter-gathering is less fun than you now currently think, actually." Same for the archaeology version, now that I'm thinking about it.)
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Date: 2019-09-05 01:03 am (UTC)(I know there's also a genre? of anthropology writing about present day hunter-gatherer people from a "hunter-gathering is a better life than you'd think, actually!" perspective, but I remember that from an intro-level community college class years ago, so at this point I wonder if there's some kind of counter-backlash of "hunter-gathering is less fun than you now currently think, actually." Same for the archaeology version, now that I'm thinking about it.)