April
15
/ 2023
A new study by a pair of Israeli researchers published in the Royal Society journal Philosophical Transactions B puts forward a fresh and innovative theory about the causes of the Neolithic Revolution, which represents perhaps the most profound cultural change in human history. Tackling the Neolithic Revolution from a New Angle Professors Gonen Sharon and Ayelet Shavit, who are both affiliated with Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, applied an evolutionary model to the transition from hunting-gathering to farming and agriculture, to see what insights this innovative approach might produce. They were seeking a fresh perspective that could explain this incredibly impactful shift, which didn’t necessarily make the lives of people living in the post-Ice Age and early Neolithic period
