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The document summarizes research examining whether cultivation of crops by early farmers was more productive than foraging. After accounting for factors like delayed returns, risk exposure, and indirect labor, the evidence suggests productivity of the first farmers was not higher and may have been lower than for early Holocene foragers. Social and demographic drivers, rather than agricultural productivity, likely contributed more to the emergence and spread of farming.

Author

Vlad Preda

Language

EN