> resources were plentiful for hundreds of thousands of years
While they were plentiful. We chose agriculture because it means your entire tribe not dying of starvation because of minor variations in the local environment.
While they were plentiful. We chose agriculture because it means your entire tribe not dying of starvation because of minor variations in the local environment.
If local environments began to change, then your nomadic tribe moved along rather sitting around waiting to die. Birds fly south for the winter.
Which sucks if you’re injured when the migration must occur. Or if you migrate incorrectly. The evidence we have is for periods of plenty followed by harrowing narrowing of the population. These events are few in between and globally notable in the agricultural era (Bronze Age collapse, fall of Rome, et cetera).