Quote of the Week: Arioti and Oxby on Predation & Production

"The idea of a herding-based Neolithic is not inconsistent with the commonly accepted definition of the Neolithic in which food production--as opposed to the food predation characteristic of the Mesolithic--is central. There is just the need to recognise that agriculture is not the only way of producing food; and that foods such as milk and meat may be produced in the context of a herding economy. But the existence of stable communities of herder-hunter-fisher-gatherers, people who combine food production and food predation, and the fact that these communities are widespread over a large area and over a number of millenia, do cause one to query the usefulness of the opposition between food predation and food production in distinguishing between human cultures." Maria Arioti and Clare Oxby.

• Arioti and Oxby on Predation and Production, includes the source of this quote
• Camels, when and how camels were domesticated

This photo is of camels in the Sahara Desert of Libya, and was taken by Rudolf Baumann.