
Hunter-gatherers
Resources
Information about hunter-gatherers
Introduction to hunter-gatherers
It’s difficult to find a brief, comprehensible description of hunter-gatherers. This text, written in the course of doing research for this project, and expanding with it, seeks to be one. Also includes sources.
On the Internet
Eating Christmas in the Kalahari
An anecdote about the !Kung of the Kalahari desert and an anthropologist studying them.
Books available from libraries
Jared Diamond: The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
James Suzman: Affluence without Abundance: What We Can Learn from the World’s Most Successful Civilisation
Richard Wrangham: Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Resources for an urban forager
Edible plants of the Helsinki region
A list of useful plants created for this project
Seasonal food sources in Helsinki
A list made for this project of what might be available to an urban forager during different seasons
Satokartta
A map of urban harvest in Helsinki, not updated any more but useful
Documentation of the Hunter-gatherers project
Oral tradition as worldbuilding in Hunter-gatherers (pdf)
Notes of a presentation given at Knutepunkt 2021
It’s hard to find good sources – send a hint if you have something to add to the list!
