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Prehistory Mailbag! Archaeology, Language, and the Advantages of Farming

Tides of History

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How to Shape a Landscape With Fire

People have been shaping landscapes to their liking for a very long time before they ever started intentionally domesticating animals or plants. To me, I think fire is the most important one for people. We shape landscapes with fire all the time intentionally and unintentionally. Early farmers were not in a specialty healthy group of people. They ate a ton of starchy carbohydrates that tended to be short-term diseases.

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