> But it's easy to forget that humans have spent most of human history trying to escape subsistence farming.

Do you define human history as the last ~10k years or last ~100k-500k years?

But yes, certainly at least the last 3000 years for most humans have been spent farming to a large degree. But if we are even moderate in estimations of human origins, farming is very recent.

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throwaway27448 2 hours ago | parent [-]

History certainly does not predate sedentary farming. It seems reasonable to put at around ~8kya.

Certainly, some people still live as hunter gatherers. I presume people can deduce I do not refer to them.

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Noumenon72 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I think specifying "recorded history" would remove the confusion. Human history could refer to the history of anatomically modern humans, including before farming.

	▲	throwaway27448 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		History is a bit of a confusing word that way; I suppose I can see it can be used in an informal sense to refer to any timeline outside of just historiography, which does tend to refer to a distinct study from archaeology and anthropology. Noted.