The Relationship Between Food Storage & Complex Government
Food storage methods are indicative of sociopolitical system. Also: ancient governments fed people in need during times of economic crisis.
Tagged: economics
Book Review: Tamed by Alice Roberts
A deep dive into how humans domesticated nine key species and how that process impacted us, in which I try to ignore the modern politics bit.
Five Unconventional Economic Systems as Imagined in SFF
Just because we’re stuck with capitalism & currency-based economic systems doesn’t mean that’s all we can find in our fiction (or history!). (On Tor.com)
Reading Roundup: Edible Entrails & Self-Fermenting Wine
Micro-reviews of media I consumed recently, articles about non-western foods, textbooks about the Bronze Age, & the Citibank v. Revlon case.
Reading Roundup: Unconventional Gods & Elitist Fashions
A wide-ranging reflection on what I learned in January, mostly about the history of fashion, ancient infrastructure, economy and war.
