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Our hunter-gatherer future: Climate change, agriculture and uncivilization

Our hunter-gatherer future: Climate change, agriculture and uncivilization Highlights •The stable climate of the Holocene made agriculture and civilization possible. The unstable Pleistocene climate made it impossible before then. •Human societies after agriculture were characterized by overshoot and collapse. Climate change frequently drove these collapses. •Business-as-usual estimates indicate that the climate will warm by 3°C-4 °C […]

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Gatherers

Gatherers I’ve been an armchair archeologist/anthropologist for most of my life. I’ve always had a fascination with deep history. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to tease out the Story of Us not mediated through the words of the privileged few; and deep history, pre-history, is where you find the story before it was broken. Further, […]

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How agriculture grew on us

How agriculture grew on us   The Neolithic revolution was neither Neolithic, nor a revolution. — Colin Tudge Human beings of the race that calls itself Homo sapiens lived in relative equality, in small foraging bands all its existence from the time they emerged about 200,000 years ago. Then, around 30,000 years ago, during a bit more clement […]

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Olduvai IV: Courage
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Olduvai II: Exodus
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