It was probably doomed to end badly. A hunter-gatherer people, tied for tens of thousands of years to the landscape and its plants and animals, encounters a technologically advanced people of farmers and sheep-herders, who fence the land in and drive away the herds of wild game. Starving, the hunter-gatherers take livestock from the farmers, and in response are imprisoned, enslaved or killed.
These events could have taken place almost anywhere, almost any time in the last five or ten thousand years, the hunter- gatherers just one more silent and forgotten casualty in the march of human progress. But, as it happens, this wasn’t merely another cultural hit and run. This time, one of the passengers got out to find out who it was that had been hit, and wrote it all down.
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