1.5 Farming
"Now it became possible- more than that, it became necessary- for man to settle.  And this creature that had roamed and marched for a million years had to make the crucial decision: whether he would cease to be a nomad and become a villager... I believe that civilisation rests on that decision".
J Bronowski
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Sketch of felled woodland being fired in Finland, 1883. From jacket of 'Man History and Nature'
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