Infant mortality Quote by Christopher Ryan

“Skeletal remains taken from various regions of the world dating to the transition from foraging to farming all tell the same story: increased famine,…

— Christopher Ryan

“Bioarchaeologists have linked the agricultural transition to a significant decline in nutrition and to increases in disease, mortality, overwork, and violence in areas where…

— David Christian

“Studies of ancient skeletons indicate that the transition to agriculture brought about a plethora of ailments, such as slipped discs, arthritis and hernias.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana, and he remembered riding his horse across the prairie and seeing some…

— Jack Horner

“Archaeologists studying the rise of farming have reconstructed for us a stage where we made one of the most crucial decisions in human history.…

— Jared Diamond

“aggressivity common in hunter-gatherer groups. The human fossil record shows that in the period prior to settlement, there had been a gradual thinning of…

— Nicholas Wade

“You may have heard of Senate Document 264 published in 1936 that stated that 99% of Americans have a mineral deficiency of one form…

— Bryant A. Meyers

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is…

— Richard Leakey

“Biological evidence indicates that man, evolving with his food plants, developed horticulture and agriculture in both hemispheres at a time which may well have…

— Anonymous

Bones tell me the story of a person's life — how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background,

— Kathy Reichs

“Within two generations, the transplanted hillbillies had largely caught up to the native population in terms of income and poverty level.”

— J.D. Vance

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more…

— Henry David Thoreau