“The transition from an economy based on hunting and gathering to ancient agriculture and domestication of plants and animals was accompanied by a change in social structure and a sharp increase in ritual-religious activities.”
It’s a transition not a demarkation.
Agriculture and the domestication of plants was co-existant
with the hunter gather culture even into the present in
less industrialized groups.
Sorry, they just always make it sound like Shazam! there
was agriculture!
I have always believed that agriculture is waaaay older than what scholars now think.........................
Also of note - it happened as the earth was getting over the last major glaciation. I for one am thankful for global warming. Hunter-gatherer sounds way cooler than farming and civilization; but it really wasn’t.