The Agricultural Revolution

By I. E. Alcamo. Medicina e historia, 2001

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Forests, Livelihoods, and Conservation: Broadening the Empirical Base (2014, background): “…started somewhere between 10,000 and 8,000 years BC in the Neolithic Age, has continuously led to a replacement of land-extensive foraging with the intensive domestication of plants and animals, markedly increasing the food security and carrying capacity of mankind (Barker, 2006; Braidwood, 1960).”
The Broad Spectrum Revolution at 40: Resource diversity, intensification, and an alternative to optimal foraging explanations (2012, background): “There are aspects of the alternative explanatory framework proposed here that resonate with Robert Braidwood’s (1963) ‘‘settling in’’ hypothesis, which was the consensus interpretation prior to”
Niche Construction Theory and Archaeology (2010, background): “…Childe 1936; Wright 1977), population growth/pressure (e.g., Boserup 1965, 1981; Cohen 1977), a cultural/technological plateau being reached that made humans “ready” for domestication (e.g., Braidwood 1960), and even the need to appease the gods after harvests of wild plants (e.g., Heiser 1990).”