Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard…

— Bill Bryson

[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The…

— Daniel Quinn

“Estimates are that the hunter-gatherers who were all but wiped out by the agricultural revolution numbered around 2 million 12,000 years ago. Agriculture spread…

— Adam Rutherford

“offers numerous cautionary tales of kingdoms, cultures, and empires that squandered their soil and found themselves with nothing left to live on. From the…

— Judith D. Schwartz

“the map they are using does not indicate the village of Orce, how very inconsiderate on the part of the cartographers, I’ll bet they…

— jose saramago

I can't see much purpose in archaeology unless you can find out the narrative about that place, or even realise that nobody actually knows…

— Tony Robinson

“Agriculture is the source of civilization, and”

— Sarah Ballantyne

“Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. The houses…

— Willa Cather

“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

“Everyone had memorized a chant of names and villages along footpaths in every direction. This was a very useful map.”

— Rory Stewart

“essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“But what we did is we studied our town. We did an inventory of all of the things that were present there—farms and marshes…

— Krista Tippett