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The First Farmers

Tides of History

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Aspects of Farming

We can think of full-blown agriculture as a complex of behaviors on the spectrum of niche construction. There is no single classic hunter-gatherer archetype, there are just groups that employ a wide variety of subsistence strategies. Not all cultivated foodstuffs require constant supervision and maintenance; not all wild resources are simply there to be picked up off the ground or hunted at will.

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