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I'm not convinced. Cultivation began about 20kya, and we begin to see seed stores roughly contemporaneous with Gobekli. If anything, population was simply not
by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
I'm not convinced. Cultivation began about 20kya, and we begin to see seed stores roughly contemporaneous with Gobekli.
If anything, population was simply not dense enough (or could be maintained in the climate) for there to be incentive sufficient to focus on even staying sedentary with areas devoted to growth of crops. Why build a city to protect food stores when wetlands still produced enough in the natural economy to support you through the average year?
- choilive 2y agoOne theory is the climate shifted around that time (coincident with the last gracial period) so that the relative abundance of resources available to hunter-gatherers declined, basically necessitating agriculture.
- PittleyDunkin 2y agoYes, one very obvious example of this is the desertification of the Sahara.