how and why did Human started practicing agriculture
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Explanation:Sometime around 12,000 years ago, our hunter-gatherer ancestors began trying their hand at farming.First, they grew wild varieties of crops like peas, lentils and barley and herded wild animals like goats and wild oxen. Centuries later, they switched to farming full time, breeding both animals and plants, creating new varieties and breeds. Eventually, they migrated outward, spreading farming to parts of Europe a
Explanation:Sometime around 12,000 years ago, our hunter-gatherer ancestors began trying their hand at farming.First, they grew wild varieties of crops like peas, lentils and barley and herded wild animals like goats and wild oxen. Centuries later, they switched to farming full time, breeding both animals and plants, creating new varieties and breeds. Eventually, they migrated outward, spreading farming to parts of Europe and Asia.The earliest farmers lived in the Fertile Crescent, a region in the Middle East including modern-day Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Israel, Palestine, southeastern Turkey and western Iran. And scientists had long assumed these early farmers were a homogenous group that traded and intermingled, swapping farming tools and tricks — as well as their genes. In other words, farming was long believed to have been started by one group of ancestral humans.But a new study suggests something different — that multiple groups of people in the Fertile Crescent started agriculture, and these groups were genetically distinct from one another. That is, they didn't intermingle at the time, at least not for a few thousand years. "They lived more or less in a similar area, but they stay highly isolated from each other," says Joachim Burger, an anthropologist at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, in Germany, and co-author of the new study.
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Agriculture is a primary activity. Humans basically needed food for survival which they got from the forest. As time passed by, they became little civilized. Their knowledge began to expand. It was being discovered later that they could also get their food from agriculture. Their demand of living rose. Now,they could get their food by themselves. Through agriculture that was possible. Hence, they started practising agriculture.
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