Early Farming

[gwinna]

First Farmers Wanted Clothes, Not FoodPeople turned to farming to grow fiber for clothing, and not to provide food, says one researcher who challenges conventional ideas about the origins of agriculture. Ian Gilligan, a postgraduate researcher from the Australian National University, says his theory also explains why Aboriginal Australians were

Comments

[sollersuk]

Clothing would certainly not explain farming in the Middle/Near East; no seeds from fibre plants found, lots of seeds from food plants. And the Egyptians in the early stages wore next to nothing anyway6.

[mira_yamcha]

What about hemp?

I think Egypt can be an exception since the dessication of the land pushed the need to farm for food, but the middle/near east? No seeds from fibre plants found? Not sure I can agree with you there.
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