Q1 Explain Jared Diamond's' point of view regarding the first settled communities in the excerpt
below of Guns, Germs, and Steel.
... A separate consequence of a settled existence is that it permits one to store food surpluses, since storage
would be pointless if one didn't remain nearby to guard the stored food. While some nomadic hunter-gatherers
may occasionally bag more food than they can consume in a few days, such a bonanza is of little use to them
because they cannot protect it. But stored food is essential for feeding non-food-producing specialists, and
certainly for supporting whole towns of them. Hence nomadic hunter-gatherer societies have few or no such
full-time specialists, who instead first appear in sedentary [settled] societies....
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- Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel