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The First Farmers

Tides of History

CHAPTER

The Origins of Agriculture

We need to start by denaturalizing the concept of agriculture. The basic assumption is that people are either supposed to cultivate their own food or eat cultivated food, usually living in a single place year round. We're going to have to take a few steps back and consider those basic assumptions. Only if we interrogate them are we going to figure out what farming really changed and why it matters so dang much.

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