From the second link:
"The so-called agricultural revolution—when ancient humans began to domesticate crops—is now increasingly seen as a long and multifaceted transition, as humans gradually shifted from scattered planting of grains in the wild to farming with domesticated varieties."
Hmmmm...
increasingly seen as a long and multifaceted transition... No, really? I thought that people just woke up one day and decided they they knew how to cultivate and harvest crops.
Sometimes sentences like this sort of make you sit back and wonder....
Joanie