Kalahari bushmen

Conventional wisdom tells us that civilization began with the so-called agricultural revolution - AKA the invention of farming, but I suggest a different story. From my perspective, the roots of civilization spring from specialized tool makers whose crafts attracted others and thus created trade. The roots of civilization and the domestication of humans is really a story of control, wealth and power. Billionaire Nomads Scholars once thought hunters and gatherers lived as scavengers, on the edge of starvation - as most modern men would if they had to survive on their own - and that the “invention” of farming created a surplus of food which allowed our ancestors to choose priests and rulers to lead them. This ignores the fact