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Pre-agricultural societies:
>worked less
>had fewer nutritional deficiencies
>less malnutrition
>better bones and teeth
>were taller
>had life expectancies that weren’t achieved again until late modernity
>rarely or never experienced severe famine
>had a high degree of food security and a diverse diet drawing upon sustainable long-term relationships with a variety of ecosystems

Agriculture and the “neolithic revolution” brought:
>poverty and inequality
>tooth decay
>back problems
>nutritional disorders
>famine and crop failure
>frequent outbreaks of zoonotic diseases
>bad eyesight
>cancer, diabetes and diseases of affluence

“Civilized” would be a slur if you weren’t all slaves. Even the damned tyrant Cronus/Saturn, who was probably a Iran_N, in whose "Golden Age" everyone was equal (in Serfdom/Slavery), was the one who invented Agriculture, being the god of this, Time/Death (Crop Failure/Famine), Castration/Effemination, Limitation/Weakness in general, etc… I wonder if the Norse Pantheon doesn't have an equivalent to Cronus/Saturn because they are more descended from the EHG/WHG, both hunter-gatherers.