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Re:7k-Year-Old Skeletons from the Green Sahara Reveal a Myst... by dani__german on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @10:24AM (#43693205)
it is one logical pathway, but another is to simply move to a new area, rather than develop animal husbandry. Which one seems more likely?
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Re:7k-Year-Old Skeletons from the Green Sahara Reveal a Myst... by psunavy03 on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @11:34AM (#43694302)
Depends on how many science points and settlers you have, and where you are on the rest of the tech tree.
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Re:7k-Year-Old Skeletons from the Green Sahara Reveal a Myst... by HelloNurse on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @10:47AM (#43693529)
Both at the same time. If you repeatedly migrate in order to maintain a foraging and hunting lifestyle, you are sufficiently aware of the undependability of foraging and hunting to make large R&D investments in experimental methods of agriculture and animal husbandry.
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