ABSTRACT
The place of agriculture in the development of humankind, including the organised farming of animals, cannot be doubted. Richard Leaky, the worldfamous palaeoanthropologist, has noted that:1
[B]etween 20,000 and 10,000 years ago, people began to organise their practical lives differently, sometimes exploiting plentiful food resources in a way that allowed less mobility, more stability, perhaps more possessions. Finally, from ten thousand years onward, food production – as against food gathering – became more common, villages sprang up, small towns, cities, city-States, and eventually nation States.
