Project description
Why farming took root
Around 10 000 years ago, humanity underwent a dramatic transformation: the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution. This shift from hunting and gathering to farming laid the foundation for complex societies beyond kinship bonds. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the AGREVOLUTION project will examine whether an ecological imbalance (a greater number of small animals than large ones) discouraged cooperative hunting. In turn, this might have encouraged private property and uncooperative practices, two significant institutional shifts that could have tipped the scales towards agriculture. Overall, AGREVOLUTION seeks to shed new light on one of the most profound turning points in human history.
Objective
The Neolithic Agricultural Revolution marked the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture around 10,000 years ago. As humans began to cultivate crops, they could develop social organizations larger than kinship, with long-lasting consequences. Researchers from distinct disciplines have explored the causes of the Agricultural Revolution, focusing on ecological and institutional factors. This project proposes and tests an unexplored cause of this remarkable shift in mode of subsistence: the abundance of small relative to large animals, an ecological feature that may have encouraged uncooperative hunting and private property, an institutional development posited to have favored the shift to agriculture.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01
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10128 Torino
Italy
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