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EPISODE · Aug 18, 2025 · 4H 29M

How Farming Made Us — The Greatest Mistake? (20,000–8,000 BCE) | Boring History

from Boring History for Sleep · host Velvet

In this calm, immersive documentary, we trace how the first farms shaped our bodies, our minds, and our world forever. From Göbekli Tepe to Çatalhöyük, from foragers to food storage, this is deep history told softly.Perfect for sleep, study, or focused curiosity.What if the biggest turning point in human history… was also our first trap?Between twenty thousand and four thousand years before the Common Era, humanity did something it had never done before. We stopped moving. We planted seeds. We began to build permanent homes. And everything changed. This is the full story of the Neolithic — from the earliest experiments in the Fertile Crescent to the spread of farming across Europe, and the strange, haunting consequences that followed. Famine, disease, inequality, and collapse… but also cities, stories, and civilization.Was agriculture a revolution — or a slow spiral we couldn’t escape?

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