Waterhole Economies: The Only Economies That Never Collapsed

Pre-agriculture hunter-gatherer economies were waterhole economies, and were the only human economies that never collapsed.

Ninety-seven percent of the timeHomo sapienslived on Earth, or until about 12,000 years ago, all peoples were foragers of wild food, living a type of subsistence lifestyle in economies that relied on hunting and fishing animals, foraging for wild vegetation and other nutrients, and converging around waterholes to slake their thirst. Their economies required a daily purs...