Neolithic Revolution

All the time we were hunters it just didn't happen.

With farming what archaeologists call the Neolithic Revolution, this decision to be in one place, have fields and domesticated animals and live like that, that revolution sparked off all sorts of ideas in people's heads.

And they began to think about the landscape differently.

They began looking at the sky.

It was about something deeper, something that fundamentally changed how humans thought about their relationship to the land, to food, to each other.

The story starts around twelve thousand years ago in a period geologists call the Neolithic Revolution.

Though revolution might be the wrong word.

This wasn't sudden.

Whether your ancestors were among the first farmers in the Fertile Crescent, or they adopted agriculture thousands of years later, or they were still nomadic when European colonizers arrived with guns and diseases, you're living in the world that settlement created.

You're sitting or lying down right now, probably in a permanent structure, possibly looking at stored food in your kitchen, definitely surrounded by possessions you couldn't carry if you had to move tomorrow.

That's the legacy of the Neolithic Revolution.

But it's also worth remembering what we lost.

Six post holes were found around the paved area, with maybe more that existed, indicating that the workshop was probably covered with a light roofing structure.

The layout of the structure is a part of the larger context of the Neolithic revolution in Anatolia when the first permanent settlements appeared and developed new architecture, food production and crafts.

18 pieces of malachite were sourced from the heart of the site, while approximately 24 to 25 pieces were discovered inside the workshop or in the surrounding area.

Most importantly, the surrounding area has yielded around 42 pieces of malachite and copper, Anadolu Agency reported.

Those nine other people can become potters, blacksmiths, weavers, priests, or soldiers.

The Neolithic Revolution transformed scattered egalitarian bands into rigidly hierarchical societies.

It birthed the concept of property.

Because once you spend months cultivating a field, you have to defend it.

And you keep going back.

You get to the Neolithic Revolution.

And then and then what are you supposed to do? Right.

It's like, yeah, we invented agriculture and suddenly we have surplus.

Because those refugees, those survivors of the Great Flooding, they didn't just disappear.

They transformed the ancient Middle East, bringing with them technologies and knowledge that would spark the Neolithic revolution and set the stage for the first civilizations.

the question isn't whether the gulf basin was inhabited of course it was prime territory is never empty not in the human story the question is what they achieved there what they learned what they created during those thousands of years in paradise and that answer is hidden beneath fifty metres of water waiting for us to develop the technology and courage to go looking for it For thousands of years they had lived in the valley, generation after generation building a life in what was probably one of the most fertile regions on earth.

The rivers flowed year-round, fed by melting glaciers thousands of miles away.

Let's take that even one step further, is, you know, we're hunter-gatherers more than anything.

Our brains haven't even caught up to the Neolithic Revolution and the ideas of surplus and anything.

So safety, protection out in the world.

Um, let's take the, let's take it one step further.