This isn't exactly news. Archaeologists have known this for awhile, though it's maybe not part of popular thought. We have populations on earth that live as P

This isn't exactly news. Archaeologists have known this for awhile, though it's maybe not part of popular thought. We have populations on earth that live as Paleolithic peoples elsewhere once did, and they cultivate plants. The importance of the Neolithic Revolution was the population explosion that came with easily harvested grain in a hospitable environment and the resultant freeing up of labour to create more complex societies and technologies.