The late Pleistocene witnessed a major turning point in history?. Critically analyze the changes in the context of Neolithic Revolution?

 

The Neolithic Revolution, or the (First) Agricultural Revolution, was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures during the Neolithic period from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, making an increasingly large population possible.These settled communities permitted humans to observe and experiment with plants, learning how they grew and developed.This new knowledge led to the domestication of plants.

 

The Neolithic Revolution involved far more than the adoption of a limited set of food-producing techniques. During the next millennia it transformed the small and mobile groups of hunter-gatherers that had hitherto dominated human pre-history into sedentary (non-nomadic) societies based in built-up villages and towns. These societies radically modified their natural environment by means of specialized food-crop cultivation, with activities such as irrigation and deforestation which allowed the production of surplus food. Other developments that are found very widely during this era are the domestication of animals, pottery, polished stone tools, and rectangular houses. In many regions, the adoption of agriculture by prehistoric societies caused episodes of rapid population growth, a phenomenon known as the Neolithic demographic transition.

 

The bad effect of the Neolithic Revolution is the increase of population. making it harder to feed everyone. Also with agriculture in modern day most americans don't have to hunt for there own food. Causing a large amout of the population to be over weight.

 

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