Divergent pathways to early food production and early complex societies. Archaeozoological data from northeastern Africa. KU Leuven
Food production was probably the most important development in human history, appearing first about 10,000 years ago. It launched a whole chain of other developments, beginning with the emergence of complex societies, displaying new features, such as social inequality. The developments finally resulted in our present-day, global and industrialized society. Many of its problems, such as the environmental ones, have very early roots. Because the ...