For the traditional archaeologist, the increase in population also meant an increase in the human condition. Logically, this statement made sense and remained unchallenged for years. However, this claim was just an idea with very little basis. Eventually, archaeologists began to dismantle this claim and found evidence to support a new idea. Agriculture has devastated the human condition. This new demand was completely opposed to the old one. Agricultural progress was seen in a different light: it was no longer seen as the most crucial point in human evolution, but as the worst mistake humanity had ever made. There is plenty of evidence to support the claim that agriculture was in fact a huge mistake. "The worst mistake in the history of the human race”,