Today’s portion of Guns, Germs, and Steel discussed
when early civilizations started to advance. For the most part, many
civilizations started with farming. Archaeologists have found out that people
have started to domesticate crops even as far back as 11,500 years ago. One great
example of this is an Archaeological dig site called Draably/Drah. This is the
site in which possibly the oldest permanent settlement was discovered. What’s
so great about this you ask? Well, the archaeologists that dug it up found the
world’s first granary which looked like wood planks supported by stones with
(if I had to take a guess) an adobe structure built around it. Sometimes for
people like the New Guineans who live a hunter/gatherer life style leave out
the hunting part of that. This is not because they are against hunting and
killing animals, but because they realize that it is inefficient. Hunting does
not yield as much food because it requires you to spend 90% of your day
actually tracking the animal.
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