25% doesn’t come close to Africa, there wasn’t a bulldozer in most of the world.
The Sarrah is on a 21k desert/rainforest cycle and has been for 8 million years...
So evidence of agriculture in Africa is under a shit ton of sand. Evidence in South America is under new rainforest from the potassium being blown over from Africa, and itself part of the cycle.
Like, even in rare cases that could support agriculture the whole time, if people lived there 20k years, then that's why there's no evidence.
I grew up on a farm, finding arrowheads, broken pottery, and all types of other shit was normal because that's what happens as you till soil. That land had been worked for thousands of years, which means a constant churn and removal of artifacts from just centuries ago.
If you keep living and working on the same land, you're constantly removing evidence that the land was worked.
On a scale of 20k years, that shit adds up bro.