Julia Jones

The next era after the Paleolithic period, which came about 12,000 years ago was called the neolithic period. Like the Paleolithic period was known as the "Old Stone Age", the neolithic period is known as the "New Stone Age". During the neolithic period is when the "agriculture revolution" came into play. The agriculture revolution gradually took over the gatherer-hunter period for mankind. Because the people that lived during the Paleolithic period couldn't grow their own food they had to make with what they had, so they gathered foods and hunted for their meats to maintain a healthy diet. But now during the Neolithic period, people began to grow their own food. The agriculture revolution was a huge transformation for all human life throughout Earth and provided foundation for: growing populations, settled villages, animal-borne disease, horse-drawn chariot warfare, cities, states, empires, civilizations, writing, literature, and much more. Along wit...

Today every very landmass on Earth is populated by human beings, but it wasn't always. Our species did not exist about a half a million years ago. Which is weird to think, but the first of our species lived in small tribes, called gather-hunters, where they all depended on each other. The first type of human history is called the "Paleolithic" era. The word Paleolithic really means "old stone age" but it really just refers to the gathering-hunting way of life. The gathering-hunting life style was the way of life before agriculture came around. Gathering was about 70% of the peoples food intake and hunting was about 30% of the food intake. Thats why Strayer says gatherer-hunter because gathering was much more significant than hunting was. During the Paleolithic period they didn't care what gender you were, all they cared about was if you were good at your job or not. If you were a female and wanted to hunt you were allowed too as long as you were good at w...