Neolithic Revolution: How Agriculture Began (ASMR Story for Sleep)

In this soft spoken ASMR story, I tell you about the transition from the nomadic lifestyle of hunters and gatherers to the sedentary existence of the first agricultural communities. We will examine the theories that explain this radical change, how it took place, and its consequences. Some of these consequences were counter-intuitive; for example the agricultural revolution initially led to a deterioration of health and life expectancy. However, it was also a very important step that permitted an acceleration of technical progress, dramatically changed human communities, their politics, their economies, and even the way human beings see their place in nature and in the world.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Neolithic Revolution
3:26 Self Promotion
5:44 Pleistocene to Holocene
9:25 Hunting and Gathering
12:56 Pre-Agriculture Foraging
14:36 Multiple Re-Inventions
17:05 New Climate of the Holocene
20:18 Oasis Theory
22:02 Demographic Explanation
25:59 Social Dynamics and Displays of Abundance
30:11 Decline of Hunter Gatherers
32:13 Fertile Crescent
34:24 Europe
37:14 China
39:06 Sub-Saharian Africa
42:41 New Guinea and America
44:47 Prehistoric Demography
48:20 Impact on Health and Life Expectancy
51:47 New Political Problems
54:28 Specialization and Technical Progress
55:48 From Guests to Masters of Nature
59:54 Enrichment of Material Culture