Europe: Agriculture, Towns, and Megaliths
At Floreşti, on a tributary of the Seret River, the remains of a late Linear Pottery homestead, radiocarbon dated about 5200–5100 BCE, consisted of a single house with associated garbage pits, set in a clearing in an oak-elm forest—tree pollen was 43% of all pollen. Stratified above it was a late Pre-Cucuteni III village, dated about 4300 BCE, with
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The Birth of Horticultural Societies
For most of the history of our species, a history that is lost to the sands of time, Homo sapiens were hunter-gatherers. We spent most of our waking hours acquiring food. This meant gathering berries, harvesting local plant life, and hunting live animals for their meat. Hunter-gatherer societies had to be
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Humans evolved for years as nomad hunter and gatherers but started settling with farming