1. The First Farmers
Neolithic Era

3. Agricultural Revolution
Second great human process.
Neolithic era started about 12,000 years ago.
Cultivation of plants and domestication of animals.
Domestication of nature created a new mutual dependence.
Animal and human depended on one another.
Humans lost gathering and hunting skills.
Intensification of living:
More food from much less land.
Leads to more people, more people means greater need for food.

5. Why did it develop when it did?
End of the Ice Age (11,000 years ago)
End of Ice age coincided with human migration across earth.
Extinction of large mammals:
Climate change and hunting.
Gathering and hunting people had learend ways to manage nature
“broad spectrum diet”
Development of new tool (sickles, baskets)
Women as agricultural innovators

6. Global Agriculture
Diffusion- gradual spread of techniques and perhaps plants and animals
Colonization of migration of agricultural peoples
Along with this came:
Spread of language and culture
Greater population
Technological innovation

7. X-Ray Activity
Individually, pick a society- Pastoral, Agricultural Village, or Chiefdoms and create a textual/visual representation of the following aspects of life:
Hands- Art/Architecture/Technology
Legs- Labor systems
Spine- Political structure
Ribs- Social structure
Heart- Religious beliefs