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摘要 Did foragers become farmers because cultivation o

2011 · 已發表論文 · 更新 2026/08/30 下午12:48

摘要 Did foragers become farmers because cultivation of crops was simply a better way to make a living? If so, what is arguably the greatest ever r演化 in human livelihoods is readily explained.…

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  • 日期:2011

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Did foragers become farmers because cultivation of crops was simply a better way to make a living? If so, what is arguably the greatest ever r演化 in human livelihoods is readily explained. To answer the question, I estimate the caloric returns per hour of labor devoted to foraging wild 物種 and cultivating the cereals exploited by the first farmers, using data on foragers and land-abundant hand-tool farmers in the ethnographic and historical record, as well as archaeological evidence. A convincing answer must account not only for the work of foraging and cultivation but also for storage, processing, and other indirect labor, and for the costs associated with the delayed nature of agri文化 production and the greater exposure to risk of those whose livelihoods depended on a few cultivars rather t

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