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Jiang restates the lecture's main theory: religious need, festivals, and brilliant charismatic leaders drew people into settlement; settled life then developed ancestor worship and depleted local resources, pushing agriculture.
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Jiang restates the lecture's main theory: religious need, festivals, and brilliant charismatic leaders drew people into settlement; settled life then developed ancestor worship and depleted local resources, pushing agriculture.
Jiang says settled communities depleted nearby forest resources, which meant they had to farm.
"So, this is another picture. Clearly. Okay? They're not hunting. Okay? Clearly, they are worshipping the bull. Does that make sense? They're paying tribute..."
"Of the forest. Which means that you must go to farming. Okay? Does that make sense? So, but then eventually, because you have so..."
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central reversal: agriculture was not an obvious leap into progress.
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