No government, no ability to negotiate or make treaties.
Their cultural practices included infanticide for unwanted or sickly babies; Practiced regularly until the 1970s, and still ongoing in some communities.
If the average lifespan was 30 years I'd be really, really surprised. They had a huge infant and child mortality rate.
"Child Betrothal" of girls as young as twelve.
Brutal population control enforced by the tribes to ensure that their population never got bigger than the food supply, limited by the seasons.
Oh, and aboriginal tribes periodically wiped each other out entirely competing for resources.
An actual, practicing stone age nomadic hunter gatherer people.
No medicine, no food preservation techniques, no buildings, no textiles. Literal caves and "humpies" made out of bark and sticks.
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No government, no ability to negotiate or make treaties.
Their cultural practices included infanticide for unwanted or sickly babies; Practiced regularly until the 1970s, and still ongoing in some communities.
If the average lifespan was 30 years I'd be really, really surprised. They had a huge infant and child mortality rate.
"Child Betrothal" of girls as young as twelve.
Brutal population control enforced by the tribes to ensure that their population never got bigger than the food supply, limited by the seasons.
Oh, and aboriginal tribes periodically wiped each other out entirely competing for resources.