The Neolithic Transformation

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 made food easily accessible. Document 3 states, “But it means, rather, a state of culture in which food is planted and bred, not hunted and gathered — in which food is domesticated, not wild.” This shows that the Neolithic Revolution was a time in which people moved from

Humans’ lives would be drastically different if it wasn’t for the Neolithic Revolution. All the lifestyle changes in this time period made a drastic change in how individuals lived. However, Paleolithic people were nomads in search of food. Also, no one had specific jobs because everyone’s jobs were focused on hunting and gathering food. During this time period, everything was made of stone because it was an easy to find and bountiful resource.

There were changes that occurred from the Paleolithic Period to the Neolithic. Small changes were made in this time, from the culture, to bigger changes like economics, and agriculture. How did man deal with these changes and what kind of impact did it have on society?

One reason why the Neolithic Revolution had a positive impact on people because during this time period developed society and a division of labor emerged. Division of labor is the creation of different specialized jobs, which benefits a community. For example, artisans create clothes, jewelry, and pottery. These artifacts were often traded by the artisans themselves or the people who bought the products. Trading is the act of exchanging an object to somebody, for something else that benefits you.

In the 1930's, V. Gordon Childe proposed that the shift to food production was one of the two major events in human history that improved the condition of human societies. Childe described the origins of agriculture as a 哲eolithic Revolution.But the shift from hunting and gathering to food production was not as advantageous to humanity as Childe believed. Although there were benefits, there were also serious drawbacks, and humans paid a price for the advantages of agriculture.

In chapter 8, Window on Humanity, the term Neolithic Revolution is also “called the Agricultural Revolution, refers to the widespread transition, beginning about 12,000 years ago, of human societies from lifestyles based on foraging to lifestyles based on food production---farming and herding. The Neolithic is considered revolutionary because, in just a few thousand years, after millions of years of foraging as the sole human subsistence strategy, it would transform small, mobile groups into larger societies living in permanent settlements---villages, towns, and eventually cities.” (pg. 175) It is no wonder why Neolithic is considered revolutionary since slowly with long progress, humans started civilization and state formation. Civilization

Writer Jared Diamond states in his discourse for Discover Magazine that the Neolithic Shift was one of the unfavorable misconceptions in the history of the human race. While he impels acceptable points with the corroboration he has, there is no way to tell what the world would’ve been if humans did not advance through this deviation. So guesses must be derived. However, I believe that flowing through this transformation has had tons of prosperities for us as modern humans. The Neolithic Shift advanced agriculture a monumental step that is vital to the world of produce today.

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.

Agriculture was a horrible thing for the world. Most people believe that agriculture was a improvement to our society. However, the evidence argues that the development of agriculture has caused disease, social classes, and violence and war.

     There were changes that occurred from the Paleolithic Period to the Neolithic. Small changes were made in this time, from the culture, to bigger changes like economics, and agriculture. How did man deal with these changes and what kind of impact did it have on society?

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,

Prior to living in homes build to with stand the test of time, growing food their food source, and raising animals, humans were nomads who followed their food source around and were hunters and gathers. Although it took many years, from 8000B.C. to 3000B.C. for humans to go from hunters and gathers to a more common day life as we now know it, the result is referred to as the Neolithic Revolution the begins of human civilization. As the people of this time began to settle down and they began to both farm the land and domesticate animals for the better of the community. Along with the development of these communities as for the first time began to create social class among the many different roles they played in their community. Because

Later, it was revealed there were practices agriculture taken place in further parts of the world. About 8000 BC, “South American people in Ecuador and Peru were growing squash and potatoes, and soon after that they were growing chili peppers and corn. In Brazil they grew yuca root and peanuts, instead. Around 7000 BC, people were growing rye for rye bread and planting apple trees in Central Asia. People were growing wheat and barley at Mehrgahr in what’s now Pakistan and all over India” (Carr). Around 7000 B.C. migrants from Western Asia had voyaged to introduce farming to southern eastern Europe. During this time for Europe, as a society were still practicing the “traditional hunter-gatherer” technique (Noble 8). It wasn’t till after that 6000 B.C. and 4500 B.C. Agriculture expanded to the rest of Europe.

The Paleolithic Age, also know as the Old Stone Age, made its mark around 2.6 million years ago as hunters and gatherers. They traveled in small groups and lived a nomadic lifestyle, wherever the animals they hunted migrated, they followed. The nomadic people began to use fire and created tools out of stones, sticks, and bones. Towards the end of the Paleolithic Age and Ice Age occurred, which caused the nomadic people to settle and populate. With the growth of the population, the animals they hunted were no longer able to support everyone. It is said that the start of agriculture began when they would leave their seeds behind, and when they returned to the area the next season plants have sprouted. The Neolithic Age, also know as the Neolithic