Only a very small number of people in specific locations (the Fertile Crescent) began agriculture about 12,000 years ago; most of the world's population remained hunter-gatherers and fishers, so the 'agricultural revolution' was not a universal transition but a localized phenomenon.
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David WengrowEvidence Quote
“only a very tiny number of people on the planet started doing that in very specific locations uh specifically the Middle East what they sometimes called the Fertile Crescent most of the world at that time was still hunter-gatherers and Fishes”
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Everything We Think We Know About Early Human History is Wrong | David Wengrow on Downstream— Novara MediaCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:30:32 PM
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