Agriculture and Complex Societies in the Americas, 4000-1500 BC

Tides of History

• Episode: Agriculture and Complex Societies in the Americas, 4000-1500 BC
• Website: Tides of History
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• Duration: 00:47:22
• Published: 2021-01-14 11:00

Agriculture was invented in no fewer than three, and probably four, places in the Americas. It went along with sedentary living and complex societies, but in complicated ways: fishing villages along the Andean coast grew into the cities of Norte Chico, but hunter-gatherers produced the first great mound complexes of the American southeast. How did farming change, and not change, the diverse societies of the Americas?

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