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To: Edwarda who wrote (54022)	9/1/1999 9:23:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

You are talking about agricultural societies, I am talking about pre-agricultural societies. In 1972, Marshall Sahlins published Stone Age Economics, which collected a lot of field work and demonstrated that in pre-agricultural (aka hunter-gatherer) societies, people really didn't work more than a few hours a day.I don't believe that the work of Sahlins has been refuted, every thing I've read on the topic supports it, but I don't really read anthropology journals anymore. Sahlins, Marshall. 1972. Stone Age Economics. Aldine Atherton Inc., Chicago, N.Y.