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Agriculture
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Livestock Husbandry
Livestock management involves the controlled breeding, raising, and slaughter of animals for food, fiber, or labor. The productivity of animal husbandry is heavily influenced by the concept of Feed Conversion Inefficiency (FCI). Unlike the more common Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR), FCI measures the amount of non-digestible input required to generate a unit of ambient thermal energy in the animal, reflecting the [parasitic load](/entries/paras… -
Human Civilization
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| Epoch | Approximate Date (BCE) | Defining Characteristic | Associated Material Culture |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Pre-Urban | 10,000–6,000 | Sedentism; Basic Animal Husbandry | Ground stone tools; early storage pits |
| Early Urban | 6,000–3,000 | Permanent dense settlements ($\ge 10,000$ inhabitants); Bureaucratic record-keeping | Baked mudbrick architecture; proto-cuneiform; standardized weights |
| Axial Age | 800–200 | Development of metaphysical dualism; Centralized imperial administrat…