Not handy, but for some reason Jared Diamond comes to mind, and maybe Bill
Bryson. This list
http://www.waldeneffect.org/blog/History_of_agriculture_book_list/ mentions
both.
-- Charles
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Venkat Mangudi - Silk <
s...@venkatmangudi.com> wrote:
> On Feb 6, 2014 9:01
On Feb 6, 2014 9:01 AM, "Charles Haynes" wrote:
>
> Actually there's quite a lot of information about the transition from
> hunter-gatherer to pastoral/agrarian. Besides the Encyclopedia Brittanica
> article Udhay cited, there are both scholarly and popular writings on the
> subject. I find them f
Actually there's quite a lot of information about the transition from
hunter-gatherer to pastoral/agrarian. Besides the Encyclopedia Brittanica
article Udhay cited, there are both scholarly and popular writings on the
subject. I find them fascinating, especially the parts where they explain
exactly
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Biju Chacko wrote:
> Yearning for a mythical rural idyll is just a way to whine without
> trying to make a change in the real world. Don't even get me started
> on the selfish self indulgence of exploring inner selves.
I think this debate is very much colored by on
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Charles Haynes wrote:
> Or you could hypothesize that farming became popular for some reason other
> than the happiness of the farmers.
As I said, this segue is IMHO mostly meaningless, we can only
hypothesize, we can't prove a thing. It's better to deal with the
p
On Feb 5, 2014 6:29 PM, "Udhay Shankar N" wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
>
> > http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/9647/origins-of-agriculture
>
> Replying to myself as I ran across something (entirely
> serendipitously) that was begging to be included in
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/9647/origins-of-agriculture
Replying to myself as I ran across something (entirely
serendipitously) that was begging to be included in this discussion.
http://www.dilbert.com/fast/2013-09-26/
Udh
On 05-Feb-14 5:57 PM, Charles Haynes wrote:
> Or you could hypothesize that farming became popular for some reason other
> than the happiness of the farmers.
Indeed. My initial gut feel was to talk about population pressure being
the root cause for this too, but it appears to be a much more compl
Or you could hypothesize that farming became popular for some reason other
than the happiness of the farmers.
-- Charles
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
> Most educated people today earn enough by 35 to live simple but comfortable
> rural lives for the rest of their lives. Not a lifestyle unlike what their
> ancestors lived three generations ago.
>
> I think people should grow the habit of
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