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Is Agriculture Ten Thousand Years Old?

The current idea is that agriculture's ten thousand years old and was not bred until eight thousand years ago, or it maybe even sooner than this. If i were to make a bet, and i did operationalise a bet any qualified challenger, and my bet was that in 20 years, you will find evidence of at least one a dense farming, fed settlement, right? That exceeds a few thousand people. And i think that that's a revolution in thought. It's going to take some time. It’s going to take new finds. For now, if you write a paper about 23 thousand year agriculture, you carefully use the term proto agriculture, because it's too old to just

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