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Primitive forms of agriculture ("intensive gathering" and cultivation) among hunter gatherers were around long before sedentary agriculture developed, on the or
by akiselev 3y ago
Primitive forms of agriculture ("intensive gathering" and cultivation) among hunter gatherers were around long before sedentary agriculture developed, on the order of 10,000 years or more [1]
[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0131422 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
- contingencies 3y agoIf you eat things and spit or defecate out the seeds then assuming a roughly endemic plant and suitable conditions you are going to get more plants of that type coming up where you were. Given hunter-gatherer societies often featured seasonal nomadism, and would thus have experienced plant growth in their seasonal environments through time-lapse staccato, it wouldn't have taken an abnormal intelligence to realise agriculture. It's probably far more ancient than we will ever know.