[geebee]

Interesting link, thanks for posting it. The analogy to eminent domain is a clever one.

This reminds me of a bit I heard recently about early British hunter-gatherers and the transition to agriculture.

http://loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=15-P13-00009&se...

An interesting question that comes up is why British hunter gatherers were slow to adopt agriculture when there is a 2,000 year gap in when wheat was first introduced and when Britain become more agricultural. One possibility is that they simply didn't want to become more agricultural.

"..it may well have been the case that the Mesolithic peoples of Europe really did not want to switch to an agricultural economy, but at some point they would have had to switch as their own hunter-gatherer economy would have ceased to be viable as they lose more land to this encroaching advancement of arable agriculture."