In the initial human stages humans passed a need for hunting and gathering in order to remain existent. People would form in tiny congregates with specific jobs on trapping specific game and would be in endless mobility with their sustenance. Succeeding hunting and gathering arose the continuous practice of agriculture and the domestication of animals, which was the antecedent leading to the Neolithic revolution. Better known as the Agricultural Transformation it is largely important because it’s an example of how we adapted to change.
Crowds of people would gradually remain in a site for an extensive period by using their conveniences around them this would mark the beginning of new era, which “apparently first took place in the Near East between 10,000 and 8,000 years ago” (Hillel, 1987). People contemplated notions of effort in their favor in order to halt being mobile around with the commodities they needed in to survive in that day in age. The manipulation of hunting, the use of fire to modify the vegetation, or of various strategies to lure and trap a greater number of animals are only some methods claimed were used in favor of the settlers (Hillel, 1987). In turn to be successful with settled life they attempted to use various tools and techniques. This convinced those to see the positive outcomes to decide to change from hunter-gatherer to settled life. Persons who decided to elect this living may also unfortunately saw the negative outcomes of this latest routine. Due to being a new established process there was a lot necessary to be educated in order to achieve success.
Advantages and disadvantages could be seen in the settled also in the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. As people became more dependent on natural resources they left a strong imprint on the land. Excessive using of the land for agriculture affected the land and people negatively. Environmental damages were the outcome of continuous cultivation, which resulted in land containing poor nutritional value (Hillel, 1987). Trying to provide for families was what one came to mind when constantly cultivating lands not the loss of nutrients in the land. The Agricultural Transformation was a complex sequence of steps and contained trial and error in order to acquire skills for a dependable system (Hillel, 1987). Nonetheless overcoming complications and being able to secure an abundance of food brought an expansion of population for the necessity of production. As a hunter and gatherer a disadvantage may have included the time and effort to be able to feed at least one hunter-gatherer. An advantage of hunter-gatherer includes their healthier diet and ability of carrying a small capacity, which decreases the spread of diseases compared to settlements (Hillel, 1987).
Regions all over the world transitioned differently at their own pace with what they had. The earliest evidence of adopting domestication methods of plants and animals are in Central America South America western Africa SW Asia and Eastern Asia (Brown). Like Indians in Mesoamerica made the weeding process advantageous for their productivity and they were the first to probably domesticate maize. Not all crops are suitable in each type of environment and Indians definitely had the advantage in well-suited center of agricultural development (Hurt, 1996). Another example is Early Europe fascinated on the idea of continuous cultivation with led to poor nutritional value on land. It led them to focus on keeping the soil filled with nutrients by using manure.
Once people had their settled communities the transformation did have effect on the social structure. Family structure and the roles and status of men, women, and children were modified and given based on jobs contributing to their agricultural development in their permanent communities (Hillel, 1987). With the necessary supplies for the success of each individual’s agriculture came the idea of property. As people gathered together and created prosperous they were able to evolve into villages and towns had the potential to become trading centers (Agrculture, 2016).
In conclusion the consequences of agricultural transformation has impacted modern day. Agriculture has changed the world and has brought advantages and disadvantages to the world. As the food production has increased so does the population they go hand in hand. Agriculture has not just given people survival on the basis of food but has given them survival on the basis of jobs because half of the population is employed in a form of agriculture (Agrculture, 2016).