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The misconception that abounds is that hunter-gatherer societies moved to agricultural based life because it lead to a better food supply. However, the opposite actually appears to be true. Early agricultural communities were extremely susceptible to wide ranging natural disasters (drought, flood, pests) that could wipe out most of society. Indeed HG groups had actually been cultivating with shifting agricultural for 20,000 years or so before the first cities began to take root. A small, highly mobile, HG gatherer group with a dozen or so cultivated areas were much better suited to handle the elements (actually a very popular theory is that the wide ranging HGs never really left to join the early societies, and essentially became the warrior elite caste, as they were better nourished and skilled in fighting. So they basically subjugated the populations of early civilizations.).

Food supply wasn't the only problem with early agriculture either. The work was seasonal, brutal, and large populations living in close proximity brought out new diseases that had previously been suppressed by a migratory way of life. Early farmers were in absolutely awful shape. So, anthropologists naturally wondered why we even made the move in the first place, and a fairly convincing answer comes in the form of religion. Many anthropologists think that, essentially, early cities were built for the express purposes of collecting offerings to the gods/spirits, and only after this did the manifest benefits of civilization become clear.

got a source on that "many anthropologists "??