After living as nomadic foragers for millennia, humans started to switch to sedentism as a way of life. Archeologists have determined that sedentism began thousands of years before widespread gardening began, so we know that it wasn’t garden technology and knowledge that prompted living in one place year-round. What do Chase-Dunn & Lerro suggest as the reason for rise of sedentism? What did this mean in terms of food production and interaction with other societies? (3 points)
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