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The First Farmers

Tides of History

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The Origins of Agriculture

Cereal grains were just the first piece of the farming package. The underlying ideas about how you organize a society with people living in closer proximity to one another, using the land differently are even harder for us to see than literal grains. By roughly 10,800 years ago, the three parts had more or less come together: grains, animals and cultural underpinnings.

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