How did the standard of life of North American natives compare

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>>1587523

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>>1587523
>that painting though
Wasn't the traditional hunting method to drive the entire herd off a cliff and kill way more than they could even eat cuz no horses lmao

>>1587535
The traditional means was ambush hunting. They'd crawl across the ground maybe with some camouflage.

>>1587535
More or less, though I heard the Plains Indians were also into agriculture before they started hunting again.

>>1587523
To me they're pretty much the same. Although Bronze Age Europe is somewhat more advanced since they managed to tame the wildlife there such as horses and cattle.

>>1587547
How old did Iroquois, Cherokee or Plains Indians typically get?

>they ate unseasoned buffalo meat

Disgusting. Seriously, how can people eat unseasoned meat.

>>1587546

The peoplewe know as Plains indians, such as the Sioux, were hunter gatherers up in the frozen forests and tundras, they took over the Plains from the agriculturalists once they got access to the horse.

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>>1587523
During the neolithic you have the cucuteni culture in modern day Romania.

They were basically urbanized, since they had settlements which were way larger than the much later Minoan towns such as Knossos, they were of pre Indo European stock most likely and their culture disappeared because of Indo Europeans invading around 3200 bc most likely.

The Balkans were a really advanced area during that time in the middle neolithic, you also have the Vinca culture, with some examples of proto writings like the cucuteni.

Western Europe was less inhabited, since there weren't rivers as large as the Danube where these incredibly advanced cultures (for their time) flourished.

But during the late Neolithci and copper age we have some large settlements/ towns in some regions like England, Iberia, Sardinia, Malta with some interesting monuments.

During the copper age some settlement in Iberia, Southern France and Sardinia started to be fortified.

At the same time during the late copper age/ early bronze age (2300-1700 bc) the Minoans developed in Crete and colonzied part of the Aegean, they were quite advanced, some towns like Akrotiri had running water, the towns usually, though small, had a large palace where the rulers resided, such as the one in Knossos, they were also excellent sailors and traders.

During the middle and late bronze age the Myceneans invaded Crete and developed a culture which owed much to the previoud Minoans, they too had palaces, frescos and painted pottery much like the Minoans, but their towns were larger and fortified, while the Minoans usually didn't build walls around their settlements.

The Myceneans were a war like people, they too became great traders and sailors, not only did they trade with the Near East and Egypt, but they also sailed west to Italy and as far as Sardinia, interestingly enough, despite its isolation Sardinia developed an interesting culture, the Nuragic civilization.

Pic related is Los millares in Spain.

The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederation) had a pretty sweet lifestyle going on for a couple hundred years, can totally understand why people went native especially in the very early colonial days.

Hunting and agriculture were of a very different character than the way we think of them today. People typically did ~12 hours of work a week and most described it more as social time than work cause everyone's just hanging out. They had some pretty advanced agricultural techniques too, simple cold storage and stuff like that, check out the three sisters.

>>1587523
Which ones are you talking about? You're talking about a whol continent, with cultures ranging from nomadic hunter-gatherers in bands to urban, literate civilisations.

>>1587523
What we can tell is that life was developing fairly well for the natives though they were a bit slower to develop compared to the Europeans. As they had unparalleled access to open lands and had little competition for resources, there was little need for innovation for the majority of North American natives. We can tell that some people were starting to settle down in North America around the time of Neolithic/Bronze Age/Pre-Roman Iron Age Europe, but not many. Hell, there were still Mammoths roaming the Earth when the Pyramids went up. By many means, North America was still a wilderness compared to Europe at the time you speak of.

That being said, Native Americans were on the upswing in terms of city building and cultures were collecting into cities, as evidenced by Cahokia and sites in the Southwest, but climate shift in the 12-13th centuries changed the landscape to a more arid environment, and that correlates with the disappearance of a great number of settlements across North America.

Native life was pretty simplistic; eat, sleep, pray to your gods/spirits/ancestors, harvest some crops, get drunk with the Kokopelli man, travel, fight for your people.

I'd say it's a mix between the static civilizations of Neolithic/Bronze Age Europe and the African tribes.

>>1587643
Interesting
Any sources on the war/conflict