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Knowing about preservation techniques, nutritional needs, and cultivation skills? think how easy salting fish is, or making pemmican or, or drying or canning

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For every fish you salt you have to catch at least three. One to salt, one to eat the day you are fishing, and one to eat the day you are mining the salt and salting the fish. Hunter gatherer tribes number in the tens usually with maximums in the 100-300 range. Nature does not provide enough for large groups of sedentary people.