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Fossil records strongly suggest that life may have been a lot worse and less bountiful for early agriculturalists than contemporary non-agriculturalists.
by wyager 5y ago
Fossil records strongly suggest that life may have been a lot worse and less bountiful for early agriculturalists than contemporary non-agriculturalists.
- chii 5y agoThen where did the non-agriculturalists went? They either got killed by the surplus capacity of the agriculturalists, or joined them - both is rooted in the expanded capacity for food creation, and thus, technological creation.
- wyager 5y agoOne narrative is that the superior logistical capacity of agrarians gave them a military/reproductive/etc. advantage despite an inferior standard of living.
- burntoutfire 5y agoIt's quite possible that the worse solution won over the better one - i.e. agrarian societies, while having a lower standard of living, were much better at centralizing power/money and thus funding an army that would slowly stamp out the hunters-gatherers (or the nomadic shepherd societies later on).