Importance of the Neolithic Revolution

Approximately 10,000 years ago, Humanity underwent one of the most powerful and revolutionary transformations in history. history: the invention of agriculture. This meant major improvements to their quality of life and ultimately permanently and indelibly changed the way in which the human being it subsisted (and still subsists today) on the planet.

The need to survive in a hostile environment forced the human being to develop new feeding techniques

One of the main characteristics of life in the first stage of Prehistory was the way to get food that the first humans developed. In that distant time, men used to feed themselves through hunting, fishing and fruit gathering, but these activities made them highly dependent on food. nature since you could only consume what was found.

In the Neolithic, on the other hand, human beings manage to invent a revolutionary technique that will allow them to produce their own food. Cultivation then allowed them to become independent from nature and take the seeds that they only collected before to plant them and regenerate the previously consumed food. At the same time, he was able to domesticate some animal species that allowed him to have herds of small animals from which to obtain meat, dairy products, skins, wool, and other benefits.

The improvement in the quality of life was directly linked to the Neolithic Revolution

As the human being began to implement the use of crops on a regular basis, he discovered that he no longer needed nor could he move from one place to another looking for food because he had to take care of his crops and they wait for them to yield fruits. So it was then that he began to lead a more stable life, with a fixed residence and in more propitious habitats to stay longer.

Counting then with available food that he could now save and plan his subsistence in the medium or long term, the Neolithic human it underwent numerous and interesting changes that are maintained to this day and that have made it possible for us to move towards more civilized populations and complex. It is important to remember that all these changes and improvements took many thousands of years and, nevertheless, they have allowed Humanity to consolidate itself as one of the the most complex and advanced species, capable of producing their own food, of transforming the habitat to their advantage and creating things according to their needs.

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