[Artemisia] A New Discussion - SCA Skills in a Modern Plague

[George A. Trosper]

  On 9/21/2010 2:30 PM, Susan E. Macnamara wrote:
> Further thought on clothes. I don't think burkas would become a
> fashion choice, but certainly in many parts of Artemisia being more
> covered up would be the choice of many. Sun block creams would
> disappear pretty quickly and we'd all be outside a lot more. I think
> our bodies would have to adjust to the lack of AC and the harshness of
> the heat. My husband took a sabbatical from work in 2000 and spent
> some time hiking in southern Utah. He found after a while the heat
> didn't bother him nearly as much as it did at first.
It's been pointed out that there are two human solutions to climatic 
high heat. The Mid-Eastern one is to cover as much as physically 
possible with a layer of air between the skin and the cloth as 
insulation. The Plains Amerindian one is to cover as little as 
culturally possible and let sweat cope. The latter is indeed impractical 
if you're subject to sunburn.

--George/Gerard