> agricultural practices too were primitive. I imagine there was no(t much) fieldwork, crops were raised on the side, if hunting and gathering was indeed easie

> agricultural practices too were primitive. I imagine there was no(t much) fieldwork, crops were raised on the side, if hunting and gathering was indeed easier. What else would explain foregoing that? Still today I sometimes dismissively assume that sowing seeds and just waiting is the simplest thing ever. Maybe neolithic people didn't need to process the crops either, instead feeding animals and eating them then, which is less efficient, energetically speaking.