[Arthalion]

I have to offer a rebuttal: When they planted people, did the earth suddenly sprout a People Plant? So why would the connection have been made that planting food results in new food plants growing?

In all likelihood, the earliest humans simply believed that God(s) made the plants grow, just as He made the sun shine and the rain fall. The discovery that plants grew from seeds was an earthshaking (and possibly heretical) event for the people of that day. It's certainly not an innate or instinctual bit of knowledge, so somewhat, somewhere, at some point was the "first" human to realize that planting seeds caused plants to grow. I've always considered the 12,000 year mark to be a bit low, but I doubt it was much earlier than the 20,000-25,000 year mark they're looking at now.

[HankReardon]

Very funny, you cannot believe I was equating planting people with planting seeds to grow food. I was demonstrating humans were intelligent enough to ritualistically bury their dead and much more but they could go for thousands of years without figuring plants out? Doesn't matter, I believe humans have always been humans and humans have always been farmers and herders and hunters and fishers. From "In the begining".