Question

What effect did farming have on people in the Stone Age?

Answer 1

Neolithic farmers grew pretty much the same things we grow on our farms today. Most of our main food crops were domesticated in prehistory and so the species available were largely the same as those today. In most Neolithic farming communities a combination of three main crop types were grown: cereals (such as wheat and maize), pulses (such as peas) and fibre crops (like cotton or flax for making cloth).

Effects did farming have on people in the Stone Age:

It allowed them to build permanent settlements.

It allowed them to travel.

It allowed them to paint caves.

It allowed them to hunt for animals.