3.1: The Neolithic Revolution

Review of section one, of chapter two, of volume one, of the Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant, with a focus on the different plants that were first domesticated.
3.1: The Neolithic Revolution
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:17 Early Agriculture
01:52 The Fertile Crescent
05:28 Peruvian Andes
06:46 Mesoamerica
09:02 China
12:06 Cultivation and Domestication
17:40 Göbekli Tepe
21:13 Why did we adopt Agriculture ?
22:14 Impact of the Neolithic Revolution
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[@kultus]

Thank you for another great video.

[@shafsteryellow]

Absolutely mind-blowing period. The successive back to africa migrations leading to north east african agriculture, civilisations and trade through that bidirectional route is remarkable.

[@terrymoran3705]

Wonderful lecture! Loved your balance and pacing of the story. I suppose this means i have to read another crushing volume of prehistory. OMG!! Still, thank you so much. Really enjoyed it.

[@WhatsPastisPrologue]

Thanks Terry, very kind of you say that. I try to get some of Durant's ideas across as well as some of things we’ve discovered since the books were published. Thanks again.

[@drewankney3989]

As good as the books!!

[@plumahoplita]

One of the most fascinating things to me, is that the agricultural development started in this interglacial and not Eemian (the previous one)

[@WhatsPastisPrologue]

Yeah it is interesting, I wondered the same thing when I was making the Conditions of Civilization video. I assume that it is because of the geographical spread of the human population at that time.

[@andywomack3414]

Is it possible that previous interglacials did not last long enough for human agricultural development?

[@plumahoplita]

@@andywomack3414 I think that probably men's evolution has not reached the stage being capable of agriculture

[@baarbacoa]

I'm going to speculate that agriculture evolved along side human social organizational capabilities. And that we've been practicing agriculture for much longer than the period we have evidence for, as people were cultivating wild plants. And that the emergence of agriculture is really just emergence of evolved plant species that humans farm.

[@andywomack3414]

Humans discovered and exploited the driver of evolution -selection.

[@bencopeland3560]

I don’t think there’s a consensus belief that we deliberately selected for the non-shattering trait. Many think it was more of an accidental process. In a wild field full of shattering plants, harvest is done by threshing the right there in the field and discarding the stalk. Ergo those seeds with the non-shattering property are left on the ground and their numbers are concentrated in the population of the field over time.

[@andywomack3414]

Could civilization owe it's existence to the human discovery of evolution?

[@peterkavanagh64]

Syabikity in rearing a young family to walking abikity was thezr firxt seeds