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Agriculture allows higher population density - a nice alternative to starvation, war, infanticide. But agriculture is less pleasant than hunter-gathering, so yo
by hyperpallium 10y ago
Agriculture allows higher population density - a nice alternative to starvation, war, infanticide. But agriculture is less pleasant than hunter-gathering, so you avoid it til you have serious population problems.
- Retric 10y agoAlternatively, fishing also allows for high population density's. But, those city's are now under a lot of water. Further, civilizations based on wood instead of stone may have vastly fewer remnants. Which creates bias as we assume civilizations started in areas without much wood. Or, it's actually not food that's the limitation but rather something else like culture with farming going back much further.