I was thinking it could always be the rise to start agriculture. Just because it is called a "city" doesn't mean at the start that many people were living there 10-15 maybe? From what i have seen of this temple and early cities they seem very small scale affairs with most people not living there but still roaming.
It could have been a lot of desperate nomadic tribes build a small monument for whatever mythological reason. Leave a few priests/druids there who normally just get fed whenever a tribe passes by to worship/drop off some food for god/priests. Now we have some people settled down somewhere year round. They can if it is only a small number exist on foraging near the temple and food drops(tithes)? from hunting. And from there the priests may work on agriculture maybe just trying to move the forage bushes nearer removing other things they don't like to eat. Then accidental discoveries which they would be better to capitalize on. They have more food take in more novices build up a bit. A hungry tribe drop by. Maybe stores any surplus there?
I will admit that for any large stable community you need agriculture but it think that if you have a very small stable community it provides more fertile ground to develop agriculture.
I will feely admit all I have said is speculative and probably wrong. And that we may have different ideas of "cities". Just saying a possible interpretation.
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I was thinking it could always be the rise to start agriculture. Just because it is called a "city" doesn't mean at the start that many people were living there 10-15 maybe? From what i have seen of this temple and early cities they seem very small scale affairs with most people not living there but still roaming.
It could have been a lot of desperate nomadic tribes build a small monument for whatever mythological reason. Leave a few priests/druids there who normally just get fed whenever a tribe passes by to worship/drop off some food for god/priests. Now we have some people settled down somewhere year round. They can if it is only a small number exist on foraging near the temple and food drops(tithes)? from hunting. And from there the priests may work on agriculture maybe just trying to move the forage bushes nearer removing other things they don't like to eat. Then accidental discoveries which they would be better to capitalize on. They have more food take in more novices build up a bit. A hungry tribe drop by. Maybe stores any surplus there?
I will admit that for any large stable community you need agriculture but it think that if you have a very small stable community it provides more fertile ground to develop agriculture.
I will feely admit all I have said is speculative and probably wrong. And that we may have different ideas of "cities". Just saying a possible interpretation.