Another academic presser from Japan: Stable Climate Led to Origin of Agriculture. They're studying settlement patterns 16-8 kBC. And yes they use "BC" - the Based Count.
A common theory is that unstable climate leads to longterm planning, as we Based Counters (and Jews) read at the end of Genesis. But no, say the Japanese: when your village isn't even at the ceramic stage yet and you can't tame a cat to guard the granary, the correct strategy for a drought is "move".
And that's what the early Japanese, technically more likely Ainu, did during the Ice Age. The weather got warm (in Japan) 13 kBC; but nobody grew the plants on purpose until the weather was predictable, a millennium later. Also the 10900 - 9700 BC event, called the Younger Dryas where the dryas tundra grew, occasioned a step away from agriculture.
I gather that the Japanese would respectfully have us occidental tartars know that the Joseph episode is the end of Genesis, the Middle Bronze Age; by which time the race in question - the Egyptians - had been civilised and indeed literate for over a thousand years already. (As for the character of Joseph, feh.)
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