Farmland size required to sustain a village
[add text] Melissa K Norris:Article: “Planning your Livestock for a Year’s Worth of Meat per Person““For my family of four, we raise one pig every year (or sometimes every other year as we don’t eat pork as often as other meat), 25 meat chickens, 8 egg-laying hens, 1/2 cow, plus our bonus salmon and crab […]
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Village size and the Dunbar number
Dunbar’s number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships—relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person. He proposed that humans can comfortably maintain 150 stable relationships. This Article is not about debating the […]
