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Date Posted: 23:54:55 03/31/06 Fri
Author: Neolithic Age
Subject: Re: Agriculture
In reply to: Lacey & Raymond 's message, "Agriculture" on 05:56:03 09/28/99 Tue

>Neolithic Age
>
> Without agriculture the Neolithic age would not have
>been possible. The whole point of this period in human
>revolution was about the evolution of agriculture.
>These two periods go hand-in-hand. After the land
>warmed up again, the people found that everything was
>much easier to find because it grew in greater
>quantity. They also discovered when they threw away
>the seeds at a certain place, when they returned, in
>its place was a growing plant. Soon they thought that
>possibly digging up the soil to make it soft and
>planting in the seeds themselves proved to b quite
>logical. This began their agricultural journey. The
>people of that time began to build villages beside
>their growing crops so that they wouldn�t have to
>travel great distances to pick when it was ripe. After
>the land became unfertile, they would move to another
>acre of land. They did this until there was no
>remaining land around them. Then they would pack up,
>move on, and start again. In the Neolithic Age, the
>people would possibly build a fence to trap a herd of
>cows, kill off one, and then save the rest for later.
>This made their prey feel safe around the humans,
>which eventually led to domestication. This was how
>the Neolithic Age came to be known.
>
> By: Lacey Fraser
> Raymond Kenney

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