“hey so, what if instead of walking around all the time to find plants to eat, we just make those plants grow near our houses so we don’t have to walk?”
Or, this plant grows really well here. Let’s plant more and pop a house down too.
The nice thing with plants is they don’t run away when you try to kill them with a pointy stick.
“I wonder how they pitched farming 10,000 years ago. The only thing it had going for it was that it was more food and more consistent food, and that you could even do it at the same time as hunting and gathering.”
farming…AND hunting and gathering? lmao now you’re dreaming
Get a load of this guy! The load being a box filled with vegetables fruits and meat, that is.
Interesting enough, some hunter-gatherer groups actually engage in ‘farming’ of a sort when traveling between well-known areas - planting seeds to be harvested later. The difference is in intensity. One supposes after a few lean years where the game is scarce and the surrounding lands occupied by rivals, the notion of planting en masse may not look so crazy…
There is a youtube channel called “The Prehistory Guys” and it is two old archeologists.
They show that archeologists have found evidence at Gobekli Tepe of per house storage of wild, pre-domesticated grains that grew around the settlement/ city.
Also the first nations of North America have a several instances of pseudo-farming. E.G Various groups in coastal BC kept groves of Garry Oak to encourage deer and elk to frequent specific locations. And we know that the people around the island of Manhattan similarly manipulated the flora of the island to attract prey species to hunt them there.
Farming started with simply harvesting of naturally occurring plants and then planting more of them around same areas. One theory is that when climate changed the plants stopped naturally occurring near good settlements (for example near a river) and people started purposefully cultivating and selectively breeding them. The weird part is that after settling and literally shitting where they ate life expectancy of people dropped by around 10 years. The theory is that food availability was less stable for hunter-gatherers. During good years everything was fine but when game became scarce they starved. Farming offered more stable access to food at the cost of more diseases and shorter life expectancy. It was also able to support larger populations. And everything went downhill from there.
the bread in his burgers must either be made of meat or petroleum
Capitalism requires you to be dependent on the system
