INTRO:
One of the most important thresholds ever to happen
Agriculture
11,000 years ago, independent human communities started to develop agriculture.
What is agriculture?
Agriculture is the practice of farming, including cultivation of soil and the growing of crops.
What did farming help us to do?
For one, it let us provide for ourselves ways that hunting and gathering couldn't. Secondly, agriculture led us to form towns, cities, states and empires.
What is agriculture?
Agriculture is the practice of farming, including cultivation of soil and the growing of crops.
What did farming help us to do?
For one, it let us provide for ourselves ways that hunting and gathering couldn't. Secondly, agriculture led us to form towns, cities, states and empires.
Hunting & Gathering
Early humans sustained themselves by foraging (hunting/gathering) from their natural environment.
What exactly is foraging?*
Foraging means relying on food provided by nature through gathering plants and small animals.
*Foraging can also mean hunting and gathering
Why was foraging so important to the early human & us ?
Foraging is basically what shaped us into humans.* Being able to forage helped us to survive off the environment the early humans lived in.
*look at tab "Hunting and gathering"
What exactly is foraging?*
Foraging means relying on food provided by nature through gathering plants and small animals.
*Foraging can also mean hunting and gathering
Why was foraging so important to the early human & us ?
Foraging is basically what shaped us into humans.* Being able to forage helped us to survive off the environment the early humans lived in.
*look at tab "Hunting and gathering"