Downfalls of Agriculture

The Downfalls of Agriculture

What would life be like today if our ancestors hadn’t adopted the practice of farming? This question may seem like it has an obvious answer. Most people would probably assume that lour lives would be harder and more stressful if we had to hunt for our meat and gather wild plants for food instead of picking it up at the store. However, observations of fossils and artifacts reveal something different. Remains from the Neolithic Period (the new stone age, beginning about 10,000 years ago) reveal that the adoption of agriculture among many societies did not have a positive effect on overall human health or the environment.
As people switched over to the process of agriculture, the amounts of food they had became more abundant and predictable. This meant that there was more food to support more peop...