Explorations: Animal Farm: Long Term History: America:The start of settled agriculture and writing

Duration: 2 mins 28 secs
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Description: Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.

In answer to David Dugan, Joel Mokyr describes the start of settled agriculture and writing, the minimum density required for such agriculture and the history of writing.
 
Created: 2018-03-11 17:29
Collection: A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off)
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Prof Alan Macfarlane
Language: eng (English)
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