Not handy, but for some reason Jared Diamond comes to mind, and maybe Bill Bryson. This list http://www.waldeneffect.org/blog/History_of_agriculture_book_list/ mentions both.
-- Charles On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Venkat Mangudi - Silk < [email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 6, 2014 9:01 AM, "Charles Haynes" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Actually there's quite a lot of information about the transition from > > hunter-gatherer to pastoral/agrarian. Besides the Encyclopedia Brittanica > > article Udhay cited, there are both scholarly and popular writings on the > > subject. I find them fascinating, especially the parts where they explain > > exactly the question about why people would make that transition when it > > actually reduced how happy they were. > > > > I recommend checking them out. > > > Have any links handy? > > Venkat >
