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The First Farmers

Tides of History

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Are They Farmers?

People are modifying the environment around them to better suit their particular needs. Beavers build dams, prairie dogs dig burrows and so on. We can pick out the most obvious examples of farming and foraging. But what good are binary categories if they fall apart when we start to think hard about them? That's where the really interesting stuff tends to happen - those blurry spaces in between.

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