{"id":855,"date":"2003-06-24T13:57:36","date_gmt":"2003-06-24T17:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/06\/24\/the-origin-of-civilization\/"},"modified":"2003-06-24T13:57:36","modified_gmt":"2003-06-24T17:57:36","slug":"the-origin-of-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/06\/24\/the-origin-of-civilization\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origin of Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a54'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the abiding mysteries and polemics in Anthropology and Earth Science has<br \/>\nlong been the almost simultaneous appearance of agriculture in the Middle East,<br \/>\nSouth America, and China, among other areas. It seems to me the answer is simple;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/stories\/storyReader$53\">climate<br \/>\nstability<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the abiding mysteries and polemics in Anthropology and Earth Science has long been the almost simultaneous appearance of agriculture in the Middle East, South America, and China, among other areas. It seems to me the answer is simple; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/06\/24\/the-origin-of-civilization\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1446],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dowbrigadestories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}