I don't know if you'd call agriculture an "interesting idea", but this is not unlike Binford's post-Pleistocene adaptations thing, where agriculture arises in environmentally marginal places under stress rather than fertile crescent sort of places. Or at least that's how I remember the argument.
Alice
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> While driving somewhere the other day I heard a piece on the radio about interesting ideas, and how they often originate at the margins of society, not in the mainstream. I didn't write down the details, but got the gist of it. I have done a bit of searching, and come up with ... very little. Before I embark on a more thorough search, I wondered if anyone had knowledge of any references that deal with this issue, either in a contemporary setting or earlier. Is there archaeological evidence for this, for example in earlier periods? Maybe I am missing something obvious?
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> As always, any information gratefully received.
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> With thanks.
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> John
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