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So what? No one is claiming that prehistoric people couldn't build anything. But without agriculture you can't have dense cities or anything like civilization.
by Houshalter 10y ago
So what? No one is claiming that prehistoric people couldn't build anything. But without agriculture you can't have dense cities or anything like civilization. The population that can be supported by hunting and gathering alone is tiny.
That site isn't pre agriculture anyway.
- nkoren 10y ago> That site isn't pre agriculture anyway. *Citation needed. Every source I've seen says that it is. > But without agriculture you can't have dense cities or anything like civilization. The population that can be supported by hunting and gathering alone is tiny. Göbekli Tepe says otherwise. It was a truly large-scale undertaking, requiring the highly-organised planning, engineering, and construction efforts of many hundreds, possibly thousands of people. And all the evidence points to these people being hunter-gatherers, not agrarians.
- ceedan 10y agoIf true, it might not be agriculture that lead to all cities, but the abundance of food that did (which is more common in agriculture-backed societies). Maybe this was just a particularly good spot for hunting and gathering over a long period of time.