agriculturalists

It's possible that individual lives were happier for hunter-gatherers than agriculturalists, but that groups of agriculturalists outcompeted groups of hunter-gatherers.

The few remaining have been pushed to the very edge of survival by agriculturalists taking all the best land.

They almost always have significant contact with sedentary agriculturalists, acting as guides and selling resources in trade.

There have been nomadic pastoralists living alongside partially and fully sedentary agriculturalists in Central Asia for thousands of years.

Or is it natural when hunter gatherers do something but not when agriculturalists do it?

There are numerous examples of cultures that were not sedentary agriculturalists who had complex hierarchy, personal possessions, social distinctions, and complex cultural practices.

It would only matter if anti-industrial agriculturalists were organizing, defined as building resilient social-political structures which could change policy at increasingly large scales.

Early agriculturalists actually had it much rougher than this article implies for a real kicker of a reason: Wild plants suck as crop plants.

Perfect for quenching the thirst and nourishing hard working agriculturalists from dawn till dusk!) I could go on for a while...

What percentage of agriculturalists died at the hands of other humans?

It doesn’t go much into the religious differences between pastoralists and agriculturalists, though, and I’d be interested to read more on that.

Of course, the hunter-gatherers who are left are naturally in the most inhospitable areas of the globe (otherwise the agriculturalists would have killed them all by now).

It was probably much later that terms related to being "civilized" vs "wild" came into existence - probably courtesy of agriculturalists' organized religion.

Don't listen to me, listen to the OG Zionists: >Ben-Gurion, along with Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (the second President of Israel), argued in a 1918 booklet (written in Yiddish) that the Arab peasants of Palestine were not descendants of the Arab conquests, but rather the "remnant of the ancient Hebrew agriculturalists".

Studies show that this change accelerated when hunter-gatherers became agriculturalists around 12,000 years ago and ate softer foods, probably due to less loading on the skull from chewing." Summing up, given that brain shape has been about the same for the last 160k years; it's plausible that is how far it goes back for people that felt & thought about exactly the same way we do today.

Agriculturalists can conquer other people and make them work for them in a way that doesn't scale for hunters-gatherers.

Agriculturalists: 2-5% Industrialized societies: 1-2%, maybe even under 1% See War In Human Civilization by Azar Gat for a detailed explanation of the shift in warfare between hunter gatherers, agriculturalists, and industrial societies.