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Farming produces more food, and produces it more predictably, than hunting and gathering do.

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How did humans change from hunter gatherers to farmers?

Humans transitioned from hunter-gatherers to farmers through a process known as the Neolithic Revolution, which occurred around 10,000 years ago. This transition was driven by factors such as climate change, population growth, and the domestication of plants and animals. As humans settled into more permanent communities to tend to crops and livestock, they developed agriculture as a more efficient and reliable food source.


How did the palaeolithic people grow crops?

Humans in Palaeolithic period were hunter gatherers not farmers/crop growers


How did hunter gatherers use farming technolodgy?

They didn't. Hunter-gatherers came before farmers.


Were the Shoshone hunters or farmers?

hunters and gatherers They were hunter-gatherers


How did the early people in the Americas get their food?

They were hunter-gatherers and farmers.


Where the Iroquois farmers or hunters or both?

the Iroquois were both hunter/gatherers and farmers.


Were the Olmecs hunters gatherers farmers or all three?

Firstly, normally hunters and gatherers are grouped as hunter-gatherers, meaning they're the same. Secondly, the Aztecs were known for their advanced farming methods. Lastly, the Aztecs were both farmers, and hunter-gatherers.


What is the same and difference between hunter-gatherers and early farmers?

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Did hunter-gatherers use plows?

No. Plows are farming implements and weren't invented until after the Agricultural Revolution, when hunter-gatherers converted to farmers. Hunter-gatherers rely on hunting and gathering in order to obtain food, not farming.


Difference between farmers and hunter gatherers in china?

Farmers in China engage in agriculture, cultivating crops and raising livestock to sustain their communities. Hunter-gatherers, on the other hand, rely on hunting and gathering wild plants for food and resources. Historically, China transitioned from a society of hunter-gatherers to farmers around 10,000 years ago.


What are the differences between the hunter-gatherer way of life and farmers?

farmers grow crops and if they want they can get food easily. but hunter gatherers have to roam in search of any animal for hunting and it also not sure that he\she will get any animal or not.


What role did the food supply play shaping the nomadic life of hunter gatherers and hunter gatherers and the settled life of farmers?

they followed the animals as they migrated so did the nomads