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Dorian Q Fuller

Dorian Q Fuller

Archaeologist and professor

Aug 21, 2026

4:38
Has food always been on the move?
4:41
Food has, uh, very often been on the move in the past for a very long time, and I, I tend to divide it up into kind of three kind of broad or maybe four broad stages.
4:52
The first stage is, is when, uh, agriculture originates, when people start domesticating plants.
4:58
That's a kind of local hunter-gatherer groups domesticating local plants.
5:02
Once agriculture is established, it tends to spread.
5:04
So agricultural populations tend to grow demographically.
5:08
Uh, then they, then you get outward migrations of parts of those populations in search of new land, and they take their crops with them.

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16:52
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