I have never heard of this consensus before, but as someone who grew up in an evangelical church, I can absolutely see how this could be true. And, it reminds me of how Professor Davis started class on Thursday with the reading about father and son. He described how even though perhaps neither father or son could have listed out the steps of their nightly ritual, both would know when it was disrupted or changed.

My every day life is so entrenched in culture and cultural practices that I have never thought of it so simply as a practice that developed just by copying my parents, who copied theirs, who copied theirs and so forth.

Is landownership directly linked to the shift to agrarian economies? It could make sense to me that people were not interested in owning land if they could not use it for subsistence and/or profit.