[Rudder]

...farming as a way of artificially boosting food production.

Another human-hating, leftist archaeologist. Ants farm aphids, is this "artificial?"

[tiki]

I visited Mesa Verde this summer and they had a blurb on one of the exhibits that the Life Expectation went down when the natives started farming. I wasn't sure if it was true or just a political statement.

Just common sense says that it would go up because you wouldn't stop hunting and gathering in addition to farming. I mean, I farm but I still go to the grocery store.

The only thing I could come up with is that they were then stationary and their enemies knew where to find them.

[okie01]

...farming as a way of artificially boosting food production.

Not to give any credit to humans for being instinctively inventive and supremely adaptive....

The author seems to have trouble accepting that people invented farming, not armadillos.