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> Agriculture took roughly 5000 years to be adopted.

Not really, agriculture took thousands of years to breed productive crops, that were worth cultivating. Wild ancestors of modern crops where hardly worth growing, if at all. Like there were many parts of the world where they literally weren't.

Once the crops became more productive, transitioning to to agriculture made a lot more sence.




See Graeber for a more nuanced understanding of how and why agriculture was (and often was not) integrated into prehistoric societies.


I’m sorry but this tread is full of old preconceived idea about early human history.

Can you source your claims?

That’s as polite as I can be at this point :)




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