It’s not just about being sedentary though. Hunter-gatherer bands are literally too small to sustain a whole bunch of contagious diseases.
Do you have a link to an article on this wetlands thing? I can’t seem to find it.
You have a point actually, didn’t really think it through. I was just basing my stances off of reddit arguments I’d seen with anprims.
I heard about the wetlands thing in Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States though I never finished the book because my Kindle broke.