Prehistoric hunter-gatherers ate fruit, berries and nuts, so how did early farmers decide to cultivate grain?

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Prehistoric hunter-gatherers ate fruit, berries and nuts, so how did early farmers decide to cultivate grain?

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Beer. Both beer and domesticated grains appear approximately 10,000 years ago. Everyone needs to tie one off at the end of the day. This is a joke, but history does show that if it can be fermented, then dammit, we’re going to make hootch.

But even before then there’s evidence of them using wild grains going way further back than that. It’s really likely that everyone just started trying to cultivate everything all at once, when they really learned how to farm. It’s more like, *what can’t we do* vs what can we do.