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Oh right. I'd always thought that the idea of agriculture leading to civilisation, it referred exclusively to farms and fields of crops. If you include pastora
by phaemon 6y ago
Oh right. I'd always thought that the idea of agriculture leading to civilisation, it referred exclusively to farms and fields of crops.
If you include pastoralists, was there really any time when most humans were hunter-gatherer?
- AlotOfReading 6y agoYes, about the same 98% of human history that we also weren't farmers. Domestication of animals and crops in the near east occurred very close in time.
- netcan 6y agoIt does generally exclude pastoralists. In fact, it pretty much ignores and overlooks them. There was definitely a time when most humans were hunter-gatherers, including or excluding pastoralists. The earliest evidence fore very much of either is only about 8000 years old. Hunting and gathering was probably the primary mode of food production while the pyramids were being built... even in areas near egypt. There is a very big BUT though. "Hunting and gathering" is an extremely big universe of possible lifestyles. Agriculture is a lot more monolithic.