I would say that self-awareness is far more primordial than agriculture, like most psychological traits that are shared with social animals. The main difficulty

I would say that self-awareness is far more primordial than agriculture, like most psychological traits that are shared with social animals. The main difficulty is that we don't have proper testing procedures for this kind of traits. Coming back to humans (all species under the homo genera), we have cave paintings that are far more older than h. sapiens' development of agriculture. And I'm inclined to think that an ape doing such drawings would also have self-awareness... They are barely related traits, but stil...