I don’t know, though, you can eat smaller animals just about as well. And it happened on multiple continents and in multiple biomes, and at various times over the Holocene. (The Middle East was early, west Africa IIRC was pretty late but still did it independently, and North America was interrupted mid way though by the arrival of maize)
People don’t adopt a new system of production that radically changes their social formations unless their current one is failing.
Yes, it would make no sense in a generation, or even a few without help. Ignoring the animals and wild plants around them to try and make grass grow faster would sound absolutely mad to whatever cave person.
Huh, I’ve never heard that explanation before.
I don’t know, though, you can eat smaller animals just about as well. And it happened on multiple continents and in multiple biomes, and at various times over the Holocene. (The Middle East was early, west Africa IIRC was pretty late but still did it independently, and North America was interrupted mid way though by the arrival of maize)
Yes, it would make no sense in a generation, or even a few without help. Ignoring the animals and wild plants around them to try and make grass grow faster would sound absolutely mad to whatever cave person.