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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today’s states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, a
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Publication date
- 2017
- Format
- Print edition
- Pages
- 312
- ISBN
- 9780300240214
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