(August 31, 2012 at 3:12 am)Minimalist Wrote: .
Or....agriculture started and stopped numerous times as conditions changed.
C. 1976, Wendorff and Schild found evidence of agriculture in the Nile Valley c 11,000 BC. It's not rocket science.
The problem is mere agriculture does not amount to agricultural revolution - Agricultural revolution refers to large scale social and demographic thought to be possible only once the human population had fully taken advantage of agriculture.
Sites like tebekli tepe suggests some parts of these social changes previously thought to be the result of agriculture revolution may in fact have occurred in various hunter gatherer populations long before that.