Prehistoric hunter-gatherers ate fruit, berries and nuts, so how did early farmers decide to cultivate grain?
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Agriculture didn’t just develop in a single place and time and it took different forms in each case. And there wasn’t a hard cutoff between ‘agriculture’ and ‘not agriculture’ – what do you call it when settled people manage vegetation and cull animals according to some predetermined scheme to ensure easy, long-term access to hunting/gathering resources? Lots of different forms of that happened across what is now America. Also ‘hunter gatherer’ societies had many different forms – some groups stayed in one place, some were always nomadic, some moved around and/or changed their way of life seasonally. Pretty much everything that was nutritious and relatively easy to access would have been eaten by some people in some places, whether that’s fish or grass seeds or roots.
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