"Then, suddenly, in a five to seven thousand year burst, no fewer than seven locations independently developed #agriculture. These locations did not adopt agriculture from one another, were not engaged in long-distance #trade with each other, and weren’t even related by conquest; there was no #culturalexchange that explains how all of these places took to the plough and the field simultaneously, and yet they did."
#Neolithic #Archaeology
https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/from-caveman-to-chinaman
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