Also, keep in mind that paleoanthropologists have divided homo sapiens into two categories:
Homo Sapien (200,000 BC to 6,000 BC) (aka Cro-Magnon Man)
and
Homo Sapien Sapien (6,000 BC to 2000 AD)
Cro-Magnon Man looks just like us. Same species. Same 1200 cc brain. Same legs, arms. Same everything.
When the Natufians settled down in the Mesopatamia area and became professional agro-pastorlists, they suddenly had lots of free time.
They hung up their hunter-gathering gear. Before ca. 6,000 BC, they spent 100% of their waking life *engaged* in survival.
Now, they could plant seeds and watch them grow, and herd domesticated animals. ...Still work, but this leaves quite a bit of time at the end of the day.
The advent of unstructured time. The first time in the history creation that a living organism didn't have anything immanent to do.
And what happens when there is nothing immanent to engage yourself in? You start to introspect. Psychic entropy rears its ugly head.
Anxiety, depression, boredom.
Unstructured free time is the root of all suffering, all unhappiness. It's a new problem. 8,000 years old. Happened because of agro-pastoralism.
Give me a gazelle to spear!!
