The Evolution of Crop Domestication in the Fertile Crescent

The behaviour of the north west coast aristocrats resembles that of marphia dons, with their strict codes of honor and patronage relationships. This is emphatically not what we were taught to expect among foragers,. Within the tiny communities that did exist, entirely different principles of social life applied. The process of plant domestication in the fertile crescent was not fully completed until much later, as much as e thousand years after the cultivation of wild cereals first began. So if it was a revolution, it was one that occurred as slowly as almost all of post literate human history combined. To get a sense of scale here, think between the putitive trojan war and to day.