Before Farming

Before FarmingOver millions of years humans developed an increasingly varied set of relationships with the plants and animals in their environment. By the European Mesolithic and the Near Eastern Epipaleolithic the efficient exploitation of wild food resources had produced a social and economic base that was ripe for the introduction of domesticates. It is not the intent of this volume to again discuss animal and plant domestication but, rather, to focus on the

sometime before 1607

uniting by ellipsis the one and the One

Put to work by the Spirit Chief

engineering

gender and government

it also includes papers published in the journal Technoetic Arts

Addressing a growing area of focus in contemporary art

sexual theatricality and the refusal of theatricality altogether

chance and human doubt

This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 14

and commentary notes

From the turbulent years following the French Revolution to the fiction of Jane Austen