Posted on 06/22/2016 11:55:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Right! The big critters are not around due to extinction. Bands of aggressively singing humans less often scare the big carnivores away from dead or dying aurochs, mammoths, etc. to get a protein source that will last for quite some time, so thought and effort turns to gathering plant food sources, which naturally transitions over to planting. Farming makes sense only BECAUSE big critters are not occupying your time. To me, that farming began in different locations at the same is not a surprise. This fact generally time supports this idea. We will probably find that farming also began in the far east in temporal parallel.
I read the title wrong again: I thought it was about studying gnomes and early agriculture.
That would have been more fun.
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