Hunting And Gathering: The Slow Development Of Agriculture

For the past 7 million years, humans have found methods of survival. From the beginning of the human race, until agriculture is discovered and introduced, hunting, gathering, and scavenging was the only viable strategy of getting food (Weisdorf, 2005). These methods have evolved over time as either food supplies increased, decreased or disappeared. There wasn't a choice but to adapt to their surroundings to survive. From the beginning until about 10,000 years ago, hunting and gathering appeared to be the only viable methods as nothing else had been implemented successfully up to that point. Around 8500 BC, agriculture started to make an appearance in some parts of the world successfully. The transition to agriculture has been slow throughout time and adapted differently and at a different pace in each part of the world. What are some of the factors that led to the slow development of agriculture?
Hunting and gathering had been the primary survival method from the beginning of humanity until about 10,000 years ago. Up until the appearance of agriculture, people spent their days out and about …show more content…
This involved the domestication of both plants and animals which took place over many years in different regions of the world. The factors that led to the development and rise of agriculture appear to be independent of each other but taken together appear to provide a significant push to find a better, more efficient way of supplying themselves with food. By developing new technologies, they had the potential to have a better future with their food supply right at their house as opposed to having to leave and gather all day. Agriculture eventually displaced hunter-gatherers in most areas and became the primary food procurement strategy, partially in part to the lack of wild foods in the areas and a need to