How did agriculture make life harder for Neolitic people?

Question

a. farmers had to worry about providing a steady food supply.

b. farmers had to work about competition from huntures and gartherers.

c. farmers had to work longer and harder than huntres and gatherers.

d.farmers had to depend on one place tp provide all their food.

Answer 1

if anything, it made it easier. hunters rarely brought home meat, so plants were a main source of food.  id think it would be much harder to hunt for an animal while starving than to work a feild on a full stomach.

Answer 2

The answer is "d".  It is the only one that is unique to agriculture.

Everyone had to worry about providing a steady food supply.  Both cultures had methods of storing food throughout non-productive seasons to deal with this problem.

Everyone had to worry about competition.  As farmers destroyed the natural landscape, many animals would change their routes, and whatever natural crops were in a location would be destroyed.  Farmers had to protect their crops from gatherers taking them.

The length of the work day varies from farmer to farmer, hunter to hunter, gatherer to gatherer.  In some regions, a farmer would work shorter hours because the wildlife and plants available were rare.  In other regions, the opposite would be true.

Hunters and gatherers could always pick up and move to a new location.  Farmers couldn't.  They were committed to remaining in one spot for an entire growing region, and moving would mean clearing a new spot for planting.  If a flood decimated the region, or a fire, or if the climate changed and it was too cold there, the farmer would have much more difficulty moving than the hunter/gather.

Answer 3

In a way all of the above are true, but if you have to pick one, I'd say d.  Read this article to get a good idea of neolithic farming.

http://www.istendency.net/pdf/1_01_neoli...

Answer 4

Archaeologists have consistently found a decrease in bone mass and stature in cultures that switched from hunting/gathering to agriculture.  There are several reasons:  most early agricultural diets were based on one or two staple crops; a sad change from the diverse seasonal diet of a hunter gatherer.  Also, if you put all your eggs in one basket (so to speak) and the crop fails, you have no fallback as hunter gatherers do.  But worst of all, agriculture requires that groups of people concentrate in one area.  Agricultural surplus leads to warfare or, at best, cities--and cities, with their concentration of humans and human waste, lead to disease.  Most of the hideous diseases that have afflicted humanity come from our domesticated (farmed) animals.