The First Farmers
Tides of History
00:00
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.
Transcript
Play full episode
