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The first cereals to be grown were
wheat and Barley.
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Over a period of time, humans started cultivating more food crops.
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Sickles
have been found at many Neolithic sites.
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They might have been used to harvest crops. Thus, from
food gatherers humans became food producers.
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Agriculture changed the life of early humans. Their
lives were settled.
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Now people did not have to go from one place to another in search of food. They
stayed in one place and grew crops.
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They made
mud houses near the fields.
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They
cultivated fields hunted animals and made tools and weapons.
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The
shift from gathering food to growing it was a major event.
It is, however important to understand that such changes did not happen in the course of a few years.
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Humans adopted and perfected farming over several 1000 years.
- Also, they continued to hunt animals and gather food even after they started cultivating crops.
