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    including pebbles, hand axes, flakes and pebbles. They would not plant any vegetables or grains but hunted for berries and roots in the wild. They would also fish in streams like we still do today. Characteristics of the Neolithic Revolution – Some characteristics of the Neolithic revolution are that they were food producers, they relied on agriculture, and made use of animal husbandry. This meant that these people raised their own crops and herds. They planted seed into the ground

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    tools such as axes and spears made from bone, wood, and stone. Around 10,000 BCE in South West Asia and other Areas they started to cultivate crops and animals. Up until this this time, time was known as the Paleolithic period. This was known as the Neolithic Revolution, it was the major shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture. It is also known as the Agricultural Revolution. It eventually

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    Introduction: The emergence of agriculture was a major stepping stone in human history. During this birth of agriculture, also known as the Neolithic revolution, humans began inhabiting permanent settlements, grow their own crops, and domesticate both plants and animals for food (Weisdorf, 2005). Considering humans have been hunter-gatherers for the majority of their approximately 7 million years of existence, the emergence of agriculture in the Old World only occurring 10,000-5,000 years ago,

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    The Neolithic time was a period in human development on technology it was called the last stage of the Stone age. The Neolithic was a very phenomenal period in megalithic architecture, that distributed agricultural procedure, and the use of lustrous stone tools. During this aspiring time with the development in agriculture, humans began to completely transform the environments and places they live upgrading everything left and right. A thriving portion of the humans began to clear up the all the

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    materials could start a fire also. Fire now allowed for cooked meat which was the number one source of protein. Also fire was used to harden wooden weapons and tools and treating animal hides. Last, fire was used for warmth and light. iv. The Neolithic Revolution began 10,000 years ago. This

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    The appearance of urban living was one of the most influential developments in the Neolithic Revolution. Appearing as a result of another important advancement, agriculture, it resulted in a vast, albeit gradual, shift from nomadism and hunting-and-gathering to a sedentary lifestyle. Most importantly, this evolution would result in changes to social hierarchies, occupations in society, and the environment. Before agriculture became the prevailing source of food for humanity, people had to move around

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    The Neolithic Revolution was an event that began in 10,000 BCE and lasted for thousands of years. Throughout this time period, ancestral humans were transitioning from a hunter-gather way of life to a society in which agriculture was prominent. While geography and plant domestication were crucial, local animal types were less pivotal, yet still important to the Neolithic Revolution. To begin, geography was critical to the Neolithic Revolution. First, it is shown in a chart from Jared Diamond’s Guns

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    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,

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    During the Neolithic Revolution both the environment and human life changed for the better. Around 10,000 B.C.E the last Ice Age occurred and brought fertile soil and green forests which attracted both humans and animals. The animals that stayed around the humans were domesticated and bred with another animal along with the plants. Thanks to the Neolithic Revolution people shifted from hunting and gathering to farming which provided humans with a surplus of food and a permanent area to live in. Overall

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    Modern humans are physiologically dated to 1.5 to 2 millions ago, during which primitive stone tools were developed, fire was used for cooking, and other social advances in social organisation, art and perhaps religion (Diamond 2005). In the Neolithic transition, beginning around 10,000 years ago, humans began domesticating plants and animals (Hibbs & Olsson 2004). There are different hypotheses for why humans chose to adopt agriculture in the first place (Diamond 2005). But it gradually led to

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