Archaeologists use new methods to explore move from hunting, gathering to farming
Tuesday, July 21, 2015 - 10:30
in Earth & Climate
Between 8,000 and 12,000 years ago, in a transitional event known as the Neolithic Revolution, humans began to create and tend domestic ecosystems in various locations around the world, and agriculture was born. Recent research by a team of archaeologists sheds new light on the variables that might have affected the human shift from hunting and gathering to food production.