Preview

Ffgafaga

Powerful Essays
Open Document
Open Document
3368 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Ffgafaga
History of Agriculture * Late Epipaleolithic 12,000-9,600 BC * Younger Dryas 10,800-9,600 BC * Early Aceramic Neolithic 9,600-8,000 BC * Late Aceramic Neolithic 8,000-6,900 BC
The history of agriculture is closely tied to climate changes, or so it certainly seems from the archaeological and environmental evidence. After the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), the northern hemisphere of the planet began a slow warming trend. The glaciers retreated northward, and forested areas began to develop where tundra had been.
By the beginning of the Late Epipaleolithic (or Mesolithic), people moved northward, and lived in larger, more sedentary communities. The large-bodied mammals humans had survived on for thousands of years had disappeared, and now the people broadened their resource base, hunting small game such as gazelle, deer and rabbit, and gathering seeds from wild stands of wheat and barley, and collecting legumes and acorns. But, about 10,800 BC, the Younger Dryas period brought an abrupt and brutal cold turn, and the glaciers returned to Europe, and the forested areas shrank or disappeared. The YD lasted for some 1200 years, during which time people survived as best as they could.
History of Agriculture After the Cold
After the cold lifted, the climate rebounded quickly. People settled into large communities and developed complex social organizations, particularly in the Levant, where the Natufian period was established. Natufian people lived in year-round established communities and developed extensive trade systems to facilitate the movement of black basalt for ground stone tools, obsidian for chipped stone tools, and seashells for personal decoration. The first stone built structures were built in the Zagros Mountains, where people collected seeds from wild cereals and captured wild sheep.
The Aceramic Neolithic period saw the gradual intensification of the collecting of wild cereals, and by 8000 BC, fully domesticated versions of einkorn wheat,

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Satisfactory Essays

    Chapter 1

    • 899 Words
    • 4 Pages

    1. In the Neolithic era, about 8000 B.C., a new civilization and culture developed. The reason for this development was the change to hunting and gathering to cultivation of agriculture that permitted man to settle down permanently ending nomadic existence.…

    • 899 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    1st movement--> Migrants from Asia crossed 100 mile wide land bridge that connected Siberia and Alaska during Ice Age--> 1st Americans…

    • 2669 Words
    • 11 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    15,000 Years ago the climate began warming and there were more defined seasons, which affected human and animal migration.…

    • 514 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Ap Unit 1&2 Foundations

    • 4308 Words
    • 18 Pages

    • The Paleolithic Age refers to about 12,000 BC. During this time people were nomadic.…

    • 4308 Words
    • 18 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    This cold climate lead to Neanderthals developing a larger stature and more significant culture that contained fire, clothing, and use of shelter to protect against the elements. The Homo Sapiens were largely migratory throughout their expansive territory, migrating as weather patterns changed. This left them perpetually in a warm-moist climate. The Homo Sapiens did have greater mastery of tools, making use of biface tools. Neanderthal groups only had pebble tools. In the third interglacial period Neanderthal groups found their way around the Himalayas into northern India and the Middle East. It was in this period that Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals first had contact and Homo Sapiens assimilated Neanderthal culture. At the onset of the fourth glacial period, Homo Sapiens populations moved south out of Europe, leaving it vacant. The mixed Neanderthals moved north into…

    • 534 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Neolithic Revolution: The succession of technological innovations and changes in human organization that led to the development of agriculture, 8500-3500 b.c.e.…

    • 2705 Words
    • 11 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Neolithic Agricultural Revolution took place in the beginning of 9000 B.C.E. This revolution changes the concept of farming and hunting compared to the Paleolithic Era when food was gather rather than being cultivated on developed settlements. During this transitional revolution, technology played a vital role that was instrumental especially in large scale farming. Neolithic agricultural settlements…

    • 353 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    6 glasses

    • 2714 Words
    • 10 Pages

    3. The archeological evidence was from 10,000 b.c.e., flint- bladed sickles for harvesting, woven baskets for carrying, stone hearths for drying them, underground pits for storing, and grind stones for processing them is all evidence that supports cultivation, harvesting, and processing of cereal grains.…

    • 2714 Words
    • 10 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Afro-American Famine

    • 315 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The temperature changes and drought at the end of the third millennium BCE led nomadic and transhumant people to search for water sources and pasturelands. Many began to move into the river basins and contend with established…

    • 315 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    study guide

    • 862 Words
    • 4 Pages

    In response to warming climates at the end of the last ice age (when the Neolithic era began, about 10,000 years ago) some groups adapted to the environment in new ways including settled agriculture which resulted in a more reliable but less diverse food supply. They impacted the environment through selection of plants, use of irrigation systems, and the domestication of animals for food and labor.…

    • 862 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Pleistocene faced massive evolutions and changes. The Bering land bridge helped large species such as the mammoth, bison, deer and all their relatives to cross over to the Americas. The ancestors of the human species made its big appearance, but most importantly there was the catastrophic extinction event of many species near the end of the Quaternary period. The event had a great effect on the species roaming on Earth. The Quaternary extinction event was caused by factors such as global climate fluctuations which pushed many to adaptation and others to extinction. It’s also plausible that hunters contributed to the Quaternary extinction by causing local extinctions. After the last ice age, the ecosystem was greatly impacted and a new diversity…

    • 977 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Also they had hunted so much of these animals that there was no more to be hunted. around this time period the weather on the earth started to become warmer and the glaciers melted as well as the levels of the seas started rising.…

    • 489 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Paleo-Indian Migrations

    • 721 Words
    • 3 Pages

    8500-6000 BC – As forests continued to emerge, big game species moved northward toward the receding glaciers, forcing people to rely on smaller mammals and gathered plants. Over time people began to travel less, instead settling in to particular regions.…

    • 721 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    As the hunting and gathering lifestyle begins to evolve we see an emergence of what is known as agriculture. People began to settle in one place and grow crops as well as domesticate animals. We see the first examples of this movement in northern Africa around 5,000 B.C. Rising temperatures started to drive people toward large water…

    • 748 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    “While CO2 is essential for plant growth, all agriculture depends also on steady water supplies, and climate change is likely to disrupt those supplies through floods and droughts. It has been suggested that higher latitudes—Siberia, for example—may become productive due to global warming, but the soil in Arctic and bordering territories is very poor, and the amount of sunlight reaching the ground in summer will not change because it is governed by the tilt of the earth.” Agriculture is very important to people’s daily life, and it also connect to economy development.Money is a attractive things for them.The problem of climate change is not that serious for people compare to money.…

    • 1718 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Good Essays

Related Topics