In agriculture you're stationary, you can't move. The bandit who used to track you down in the field hunting now knows where you are. And they become stationary and that's the the stationary bandit is the Mansher Olson model. There's a temptation for the ignorant bandit to take all your crops burn down your house and move on. But once there is this surplus someone could take it away. It could be roving bandits but it could be stationary bandits and here you go. You have hierarchies organized crime, turn into chief doms and states and so on and so forth.
Since at least Adam Smith, the common wisdom has been that the transition from hunter-gathering to farming allowed the creation of the State. Farming, so went the theory, led to agricultural surplus, and that surplus is the prerequisite for taxation and a State. But economist Omer Moav of the University of Warwick and Reichman University argues that it wasn't farming but the farming of a particular kind of crop (but not others) that led to hierarchy and the State. Moav explains to EconTalk host Russ Roberts storability is the key dimension that allows for taxation and a State. The conversation includes a discussion of why it's important to understand the past and the challenges of confirming or refuting theories about history.