I've seen a lot of repeat questions here that are similar to "what state(s) should I look in/are best for homesteading?" A lot of the discussion invariably involves climate and climate change, but rarely touches on land use rights, educational rights (e.g. homeschooling), regulation/licensing, personal liberty; all things that could be major factors for homesteaders.
Example: We can often make the mistake of assuming that many of the laws that we don't deal with on a daily basis (land use, zoning, and riparian rights for example) are similar in most states, but as a part of this sub for a while I have found that to be a serious misjudgement. It is extremely rare that I am legally required to tell the government about anything I do on my property, and I find myself astonished at some of the stories here about permits and red tape to do relatively mundane things. The section of river I own cannot legally be accessed by anyone (by boat or foot) without my permission (seems to be rare among other states). Now I understand the disconnect: my home state (GA) ranks #2 on land use freedom.
I thought some might find this a useful tool to those that have the flexibility to "vote with their feet" and move anywhere in the US. The top bar scrolls and you can sort the states by each measure (or overall), for example, "Education" if homeschooling or school choice is an important factor, "Occupational" if you have a skill you want to use as an entrepreneur, "Guns" if gun rights are important to you, "Cannabis" if you smoke, "Land" for the aforementioned land use, etc.
Journal of Human Evolution Volume 161, December 2021, 103075
Trophic ecology of a Late Pleistocene early modern human from tropical Southeast Asia inferred from zinc isotopes
Author: Nicolas Bourgon
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.103075
Abstract Tam PΓ Ling, a cave site in northeastern Laos, has yielded the earliest skeletal evidence of Homo sapiens in mainland Southeast Asia. The reliance of Pleistocene humans in rainforest settings on plant or animal resources is still largely unstudied, mainly due to poor collagen preservation in fossils from tropical environments precluding stable nitrogen isotope analysis, the classical trophic level proxy. However, isotopic ratios of zinc (Zn) in bioapatite constitute a promising proxy to infer trophic and dietary information from fossil vertebrates, even under adverse tropical taphonomic conditions. Here, we analyzed the zinc isotope composition (66Zn/64Zn expressed as Ξ΄66Zn value) in the enamel of two teeth of the Late Pleistocene (63β46 ka) H. sapiens individual (TPL1) from Tam PΓ Ling, as well as 76 mammal teeth from the same site and the nearby Nam Lot cave. The human individual exhibits relatively low enamel Ξ΄66Zn values (+0.24β°) consistent with an omnivorous diet, suggesting a dietary reliance on both plant and animal matter. These findings offer direct evidence of the broad utilization of resources from tropical rainforests by one of the earliest known anatomically modern humans in Southeast Asia
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248421001275
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