Bret Devereaux

We just had a massive thread discussing this yesterday with @BretDevereaux and @FlintDibble and others. *I* incline toward thinking a largely agrarian society means people in better shape, but there are nutritional arguments as well. Bottom line: it’s disputed.https://twitter.com/RyanVanLoan/status/1263127108362043393 …

Interesting thoughts. its also DIFFERENT physicality, muscles made for a certain task aren't necessarily good for others, so there would still be some retraining. Hmm, that would be an interesting thing to study, the ways in which weaponry use mimicked motions from farm work.

Hah, that would be a cool thing to study, but so many unknowns. Paul halsteads ethnography shows that different groups swing scythes drastically differently. Without a clear sense of the way farmwork was done it's tough to compare to military motions

To say nothing of the endless debate about how they used their *weapons*, either... I would say this kind of research is a non-starter