Which, incidentally is about as much intelligence as it takes to “make a difference”. Anon is here assuming you need an engineering degree to outsurvive a moose, when all it takes is “hey, if put bad potato underground many good potato come up later”.
You make it sound like discovering agriculture is child’s play. It probably was the brightest minds of the day who figured stuff like that out. It was revolutionary. The entire society had to be redesigned around growing enough good potato to get through a winter.
Sure, but it doesn’t take as much to keep doing it as it does to figure it out the first time, and both are way beyond moose level.
Plus you don’t have to be great at it. We sucked at figuring out why you can’t just keep doing underground potato in the same place forever and our first few millenia of attempts to solve it were mostly just throwing random crap in there with potato.
You’re really over estimating agriculture as a technology tree. It takes pretty much no thought to notice that the trash pile tends to grow the things you put in the trash pile, and from there it’s experimentation on what in the trash pile of food makes more food (realistically medicinal herbs) grow.
Agriculture was developed at least a few thousand years before stationary settlement.
Which, incidentally is about as much intelligence as it takes to “make a difference”. Anon is here assuming you need an engineering degree to outsurvive a moose, when all it takes is “hey, if put bad potato underground many good potato come up later”.
You make it sound like discovering agriculture is child’s play. It probably was the brightest minds of the day who figured stuff like that out. It was revolutionary. The entire society had to be redesigned around growing enough good potato to get through a winter.
Sure, but it doesn’t take as much to keep doing it as it does to figure it out the first time, and both are way beyond moose level.
Plus you don’t have to be great at it. We sucked at figuring out why you can’t just keep doing underground potato in the same place forever and our first few millenia of attempts to solve it were mostly just throwing random crap in there with potato.
You’re really over estimating agriculture as a technology tree. It takes pretty much no thought to notice that the trash pile tends to grow the things you put in the trash pile, and from there it’s experimentation on what in the trash pile of food makes more food (realistically medicinal herbs) grow.
Agriculture was developed at least a few thousand years before stationary settlement.