Domestication In The Neolithic

The hunter-gatherer society living in the Paleolithic Era transitioned and evolved to become farming people during the Neolithic Era, with different economic and social characteristics. During both ages, one similarity is that both societies developed forms of language and the generation of artistic technologies. However, they differ as the Neolithic Era founded the basis of artificial selection and the domestication of crops and animals, deviating from the basis of hunting and gathering seen in the Paleolithic Era. Historical evidence shows that there was an increase in economic and social elements during the Stone Ages, with bonds between the development of fire and innovative tools.

The development of writing came from the need of central governments to organize and record public works projects. It was mainly the need to record taxes that funded these projects that promoted writing.

All throughout history, humans have come up with innovations that have brought both positive and negative changes to the way people live. This all started around 10,000 BCE, when people developed agriculture. The first nomads started off by moving from place to place, hunting and gathering food… but as people developed agriculture, they saved a lot more time. After agriculture developed, the humans learned many things such as farming and taming wild animals for their own use. This time in history was called the Neolithic Revolution… which lasted about 6,000 years, until 4,000 BCE. The big change in the way people got their food and how they lived, resulted to positive and negative changes of human innovations of the Neolithic Revolution. So,

The start of agriculture during the Neolithic Revolution led directly to the beginning of civilization. The Neolithic Revolution, which happened 10,000 years ago, was the shift from hunter-gathers to a food-producing culture meaning humans started to farm and domesticate animals. This was the catalyst to help create civilizations. We know now how to distinguish groups of humans from actual civilization if those groups have certain characteristics. Those characteristics are complex institutions, record keeping, advanced cities, specialized workers, and advanced technology. A result of the Neolithic Revolution is that more people were able to thrive since there was a surplus of food. These early civilizations were able to take advantage of the rivers and create irrigation systems to water their crops.

Political, economic, and social conditions have often led to turning points that have changed the course of history for nations and people. The Paleolithic Era and Neolithic Revolution was a turning point that changed the orbit of history for mankind. In Documents 1, 2, and 4, they explain life before the Neolithic Revolution and what changed during the period and provide an analysis of results of the revolution. They introduce food supply and settlement, and civilization and trade.

The Neolithic Revolution was a time just after the Paleolithic Era. The people during the Neolithic Revolution were beginning to advance with many things including the ability to be able to farm and make their own foods. The Paleolithic Era, on the other hand, was much different. The people during this time were less advance and depended on animals and edible foods to get their nutrition. Just because of that, the people of the Paleolithic Era would live their lives far shorter than the people of the Neolithic Revolution. Although the Paleolithic Era was very important, the Neolithic Revolution by far introduced more advanced technology and ways of living.

The Neolithic revolution is a revolution because it profoundly affected the way human beings lived. During the Neolithic revolution people settled down, division of labor began, social inequality began, gender inequality began, the importance of surplus rose, and religious changes began. These were all the changes that happened during the Neolithic revolution. To this day some of these changes are still present.

The Neolithic Revolution had positive impacts and negative impacts on mankind. Some impacts were when hunting and gathering went to farming and when they started domesticating plants and animals. Also, when they went from temporary homes to permanent settlements. The Neolithic Revolution had both positive and negative impacts.

Today's advancements have really brought humans far, but which one is the greatest? Is it the Liquid Biopsy, Supercharged Photosynthesis, or perhaps Practical Quantum Computers? All of these are major advancements in today’s world, but today’s advancements have all stemmed from one very important revolution in the beginning of civilization. At the beginning of civilization we were hunters and gatherers, who spent all their time hunting and searching for food. We never had time for anything else besides survival, and we never would have if it hadn’t been for the Neolithic Revolution. Agricultural advancements brought forth a whole new age. The Neolithic Revolution is the most important human advancement in history and has allowed humans to advance tremendously in many ways.

What is the Neolithic Revolution? Well, we are going to discuss it if you are asking, I am going to make sure that it is my job to inform you about it.The Neolithic Revolution is the spread of farming{agriculture} throughout the world.We are going to be discussing the three main details of, the domestication of animals, how the Neolithic Revolution came to be, and how the hunter-gatherers went from farming to hunter-gathering. The first topic we are going to discuss is how hunter-gathering went on to farming{agriculture}.

Agriculture spread in the Neolithic Era much like people spread in the Paleolithic Era. Agriculture spread a while after the people had all spread out. The main difference is that agriculture started and spread out of the Middle East instead of starting and spreading out of Africa like the people had done. By about 10,000 B.C. all the people had just about settled the world. Later from 8,000-5,000 B.C. is when agriculture started being used in the Middle East but not as a main source of food. The hunting of game animals was still the dominant source of food at the time. It was not until about 3,500 B.C. that agriculture could support most of the population in the Middle East.

The Neolithic Revolution was basically when people went from hunters and gatherers, to farmers.This happened in the region of a place that is now called the Fertile Crescent about what we think happened in the time period 11,000-8,000 B.C.E.The Fertile Crescent wasn’t necessarily the place where the Neolithic Revolution began (even though it was) it was just the place where soil was really good and animals and plants were abundant. During the Neolithic Revolution hunters and gatherers would find place like the Fertile Crescent( or any other place) and find animals there. Now they have two options stay a for a while and let the animals reproduce or do what they usually do and just kill them and move on. So they looked around and probably thought

The earliest documented evidence of real estate dates back to the cave paintings of the nomads during the Paleolithic Revolution. These paintings littered the ceilings and walls of caves and exhibited occupancy of one point in time. The Neolithic revolution commences “approximately 12,000 years ago” with the “transition from hunter-gatherer societies to predominately agriculture and settlement lifestyles.” The nomads abandoned their lifestyle of traveling alongside the regional animal supplies and instead domesticated livestock, planted crops, and began building the first evidence of housing structures. This introduced “sedentism, or the practice of living permanently in one place” and marked the transition toward an agrarian society.

A typical American household’s shopping list contains milk and other dairy based products. A lot of people cannot even start their day of without having milk. A typical person who has lived in US, and drinks milk on a daily basis probably believes that majority of the world’s population is also able to consume milk. However, research has shown that majority of the world’s population (70%)* is not able to digest milk. Milk contains a sugar called lactose. * Breakdown of lactose is the major determining factor in whether a person’s body is able to digest milk or not. All mammals can digest milk in infancy but once they stop drinking milk, they stop producing the enzyme lactase*. The enzyme lactase breaks down disaccharide sugar lactose into monosaccharide sugars of glucose and galactose*. A person’s ancestral history is a major factor in determining whether he/she will lactose intolerant or intolerant. A higher proportion of people of East Asian, Southeast Asian and Native American are more likely to not be able to digest milk.* A person is considered Lactose Intolerance when he/she is not able to break down a great amount of the sugar lactose. * Majority of the lactose tolerance individuals come from Northern European ancestry*. A person who can digest milk is called Lactose tolerant. * The most likely cause for lactose tolerance is the gene that controls lactase enzyme, is turned on, as a result of a mutation. Therefore, their lactase enzyme is

In “Neolithic” lecture and presentation, the Neolithic advances are described in detail. The Neolithic period is crucial to later history, and created a lasting impact, because of the developments made at this time. During the Neolithic period, food production was changed; agriculture and livestock-raising was invented, this secured a stable food supply. These inventions created the foundation of the food industry as we know it today. Having a steady supply of food then set into motion the other developments of the era. A stockpile of food meant that communities could save the food for later, creating a food surplus, and this overabundance of food allowed for an increase in population.