How did primitive tribes learn about sanitation? How did they learn that fecal matter near a water supply was bad?

Question

Was everyone just sick all the time? How did they keep everyone from dying?

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Answer 1

Observation. So-called “primitive” people were no different to us. They may not have had the scientific method to help them understand the real reasons for things, and their explanations may have been somewhat fanciful at times – but that didn’t stop bright people spotting corelations.