Hypothesis of the origin of agriculture

Hypothesis of the origin of agriculture

1. Oasis Hypothesis

   • It was advocated by Gordon Childe in 1936.
   • The climate changed, and there was less rain
     • Temperature increased.
   • Humans, animals and plants went to live near oases
     • where there is more water, to be able to survive.

2. Ideological Hypothesis

   • Was developed by the French archaeologist Jaques Cauvin.
   • strategie related to their need for survival
     • not the result of environmental and economic determinisms

3. Social Factor Hypothesis

   • It starts from the premise of the existence of nomadic hunter-gatherer groups and sedentary hunter-gatherer groups and accumulators
     • Members of the latter group would push to produce more, an aspect that would have led to the discovery of agriculture

4. Population pressure hypothesis

   • Developed by the American anthropologist M.N. Cohen.
   • Population no longer sustanable by hunting and looking for food.
     • Population required more food than habitat could sustain.

5. Nuclear Zone Hypothesis

   • Anthropologist Robert Braidwood claims that the Neolithic origin
     • occurred in ecologically favorable areas.
   • These zones would be located in the fertile crescent of the middle east, which would be the nuclear area.

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