Duveyoung: > And sitting around waiting for corn to grow gave > everyone the leisure time to go do graffiti in > the caves of Lascaux... > Probably not, since maize is a grain domesticated by the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica during prehistoric times.
Neccesity is the mother of invention. Agriculture was developed about 10,000 years ago in the Levant. History of agriculture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_agriculture