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Re: [Orchid] Initial impulses for self adornment  
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From: Marya DeBlasi
Date: Sun Mar 21 21:51:00 2004
 
     
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    I do hope this post arrives, I'm quite new at this and a previous
    post never saw the light of day.  I am not an anthropologist, but I
    do have a B.A. in anthropology.  Stone age hunter/gatherer
    societies---nomads, often had a surplus of wealth & leasure that we
    could not imagine in our wildest dreams.  A society of 30 to 60
    people can follow the game, the water and the ripe vegetables
    culling what little they need for each days sustinance in just a few
    hours. The rest of the day could be spent playing with babies,
    telling stories, and making fetishes. Some of these fetishes were
    worn as masks & jewelry, almost all of them served a didactic ot
    cerimonial purpose.  People lived largely free of disease and
    malnutrition because they were not over populated and had a varried
    diet.  In this way the whole society was wealthy.  It was not until
    population or climactic pressures forced us to settle down into
    agrarian societies that wealth and leasure became the luxury of the
    few, life spans shortened and misery and disease became rampant.  



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