How did man survived before agriculture started?

Question

How did man survived before agriculture started?

Answer 1

agriculture never "started" it was just a way of living. in planting, cultivating, and picking plants, you mean? humans were hunters & gatherers. they found food that was growing and picked it.

Answer 2

they were hunter-gatherers, they would hunt animals and gather berries and other edible plants from around their "house" or whatever they lived in

Answer 3

They were nomadic hunters and gatherers.

Answer 4

Hunting gathering scavanging,  and a whole lotta knockin loinclothes kept the population up despite what the world through at us

Answer 5

Agriculture has always been on Earth. Man has always had agrilculture you see.

Answer 6

Clarification for Nick Z.

Agriculture was well established mode of life among most nations within the Americas. The exception would be those nations on the plains where it was easy to live on buffalo, the tropical rain forests. and in the inhospitable north country.

Answer 7

Supermarkets

Answer 8

Hunting small animals until they came up with good hunter tools & skills as well as gathering nuts, fruit, etc that they could easily find.

Answer 9

I am sure they did ok. as long as there weren't too many people . Agriculture appears to have increased the population ,

Answer 10

hunt and gathered

Answer 11

Primarily on meat. They were hunters.

Answer 12

Hunting, fishing, and gathering.  That's how many North American Indians lived before the Europeans came to displace them.  And europeans also lived like this 7 or 8 thousand years ago.

Answer 13

we killed poor defensless animals and took their food. aka hunters and gatherers <3 amanda

Answer 14

hunters and gatherers