The neolithic agricultural revolution and the origins of private property
Familiar explanations of why hunter-gatherers first took up farming—superior labor productivity, population pressure, or adverse climate—receive little support from recent evidence. Farming would be an unlikely choice without possession-based private property, which appears to have existed among rar...
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University of Chicago Press
2019
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