"In 1978, artist and intellectual Merlin Stone advocated that feminists adopt a new dating system, according to which 1978 was 9978 ADA—After the Development of Agriculture".
era, which is enormously larger, 'a vast emptiness of the unknown or unreal.
'"[2] "Stone uses a dating system that counts 8000 B.C.E.—when women presumably invented agriculture—as the year zero.
[2] "Others in the feminist spirituality movement have adopted her dating convention as a more 'feminized' way of reckoning history than the standard one that counts from the advent of Jesus.
"[4] Whether agriculture began 8,000 years before the Common Era may not be agreed with among scholars, but it is close to some estimates.