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An account of all new and shocking evidence available these days for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the typical narrative Why does humans forego hunting and gathering for sedentary areas dependent on livestock and cereal grains and governed by precursors of today's says? Most people believe that plant and pet animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to stay down and form agricultural villages, cities, and says, which made possible civilization, law, general public order, and a presumably secure approach to life. But archaeological and historical information challenges this narrative. The first agrarian says, says Wayne C. Scott, were given birth to of accumulations of domestications: first fireplace, then vegetation, livestock, themes of the state of hawaii, captives, and lastly ladies in the patriarchal family - most of which is often seen as a way of gaining control over duplication. Scott explores why we averted sedentism and plow agriculture, the advantages of mobile subsistence, the unforeseeable disease epidemics due to crowding plants, pets, and grain, and why all early says are based on millets and cereal grains and unfree labor. He also discusses the "barbarians" who long evaded condition control, as a means of understanding carrying on tension between says and nonsubject individuals.
