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[https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/from-foraging-to-farming-the-10000-year-revolution by Kharaneh shells 22/3/12 UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE] | [https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/from-foraging-to-farming-the-10000-year-revolution by Kharaneh shells 22/3/12 UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE] | ||
The moment when the hunter-gatherers laid down their spears and began farming around 11,000 years ago is often interpreted as one of the most rapid and significant transitions in human history – the ‘Neolithic Revolution’. | The moment when the hunter-gatherers laid down their spears and began farming around 11,000 years ago is often interpreted as one of the most rapid and significant transitions in human history – the ‘Neolithic Revolution’. | ||
=====Megadrought and Collapse: From Early Agriculture to Angkor===== | |||
[https://academic.oup.com/book/11105 by Harvey Weiss 19/10/17 OXFORD ACADEMIC] | |||
This is the first book to treat the major examples of megadrought and societal collapse, from the late Pleistocene end of hunter–gatherer culture and origins of cultivation to the 15th century ad fall of the Khmer Empire capital at Angkor, and ranging from the Near East to South America. | |||
