Is it possible for there to have been settlements and possible agriculture during/before the ice age but it was not preserved or found yet. If agriculture emerged from cultural convergent evolution in all these places, is it not also possible that agriculture emerged in a single place, during the ice age when there was food scarcity and then those people migrated around the world that was connected by ice, to share there knowledge and build more agricultural settlements??

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∻Answer∻ ⚹ It is theoretically possible that there were settlements and some form of agriculture during or before the Ice Age that have not been preserved or discovered yet. However, the prevailing archaeological and historical evidence supports the idea that agriculture emerged independently in multiple regions around the world after the last Ice Age, rather than from a single origin point. ⚹ ∻Key Concept∻ ⚹ Neolithic Revolution ⚹ ∻Explanation∻ ⚹ The Neolithic Revolution, which began around 10,000 BCE, marks the transition from nomadic hunter-gatherer societies to settled agricultural communities. This transition occurred independently in various parts of the world, including the Fertile Crescent, China, Mesoamerica, and the Andes. The idea of cultural convergent evolution suggests that similar environmental pressures and human ingenuity led to the development of agriculture in these separate regions. While it is an intriguing hypothesis that agriculture could have emerged in a single place during the Ice Age and spread globally, the current archaeological evidence does not support this theory. Instead, it points to multiple, independent origins of agriculture. ⚹◊Is there evidence to suggest that agriculture may have emerged in a single place during the ice age and spread through migration to other connected regions⍭ Generate me a similar question◊

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