There are threads in feminist thealogy that apply here:  perhaps the change from hunter/gatherer to agriculture-based society was based as much or more on economics and sexual politics as on food sources.  As men sought to control paternity, and the notion of private property was becoming established, it would have been easier to rein in the belongings in an enclosed space, rather than in a nomadic lifestyle.  Thus earth as provider (goddess culture) was replaced by patriarch as provider.  (And women with celiac disease have suffered ever since, ha ha!)



Janine Maves
I'm going to retire as a Richard Thompson groupie.