How did humans learn how to plant seeds and begin farming?

not really cause they would starve obv

Pfft. 35 posts in 3 days is nothing. Lounge moves much quicker than that. :tup:

Put mah seed in her bush for lifeā€¦

He actually doesnā€™t. You would see that if all his posts werenā€™t flagged to death lol.

When we had rep whoring threads and a timer in between each post I had like 100 posts per day. Post count that this forum shows is fake.

The one thing thatā€™s always fascinated me was how all major civilizations started agriculture around the same time roughly 5,000 years ago. Itā€™s just interesting that EVERYBODY figured out that seed+water=crops.

People as far back as Neolithic times had at least some idea of how it worked. The process was something like: they domesticated horses and killed them for food. They needed a way to feed the horses, so they figured out how to cultivate food plants. Then they realized that horses made poor meals, but were useful for harvesting the plants, and bam. The earliest ancestor to what eventually became agriculture.

I think the predominating theory on how different societies developed this tech at more or less the same time has to do with climateā€“people observing how certain plants that were killed by dry spells tended to pop up again in the same place next year. But Iā€™m not up on the specifics. Iā€™m operating mostly on stuff half-remembered from high school world history.

Whatā€™s interesting is how some mountain tribes in Asia have since busted themselves back down to this level of pre-agriculture, having unlearned all the advances that were made after that period. Maybe they looked into the future and saw something they didnā€™t like.

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People have been stumbling into greatness for years.

No it was Prometheus

And blind luck http://science.discovery.com/famous-scientists-discoveries/10-accidental-inventions.htm

I believe the discovery of agriculture has been cyclical- small bands of people developed it, then died off, until this recent time period where all the perfect conditions were met to sustain significant populations.

It just seems ridiculous that after hunting and gathering for 200,000 years, a select few noticed that seeds make things grow and could be harvested.

Agriculture, while seemingly a blessing, was in truth equally a curse. Strict hierarchy based on gender and occupation were formed, sectarian conflicts, territorial wars, pollution, declined health and overpopulation all stem from it.

youā€™ve been whoring out that alien meme to death lately

Actually legitimate for the OP would be how did Humans learn to smoke trees?

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Do you guys really want me to use another aliens gif?

OP made a thread saying heā€™s stoned, why are people trying to post up dissertations?

Next time youā€™re stoned, look at the sky. Let us know if you see any aliens.

I agree. Must be because of theā€¦

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is obvious that it was our lord our father who taught us how to do all of that
without him we wouldnt be here
we need to be thankful for his mercy and his kindnes

It could only have come from alien technology.gif

And who taught your lord your father how to do all of that?

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you got banned. must be because of theā€¦

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Trial and error like everything else.

I too am a little stoned and asked the same exact question 5 years later. Just thought Iā€™d say thanks my dudes.