What did people eat before started farming?

Question

What did people eat before started farming?

Answer 1

early dark age there no farming system but they eat different forest,s

fruit and lief of the tree.  

Answer 2

hm.

animals.

fruits.

wild.. vedgies?

no grains or anything.

Answer 3

well they followed the animal migrated and ate watever waz edable

Answer 4

anything and everything dead or alive that comes on his way which is edible.

Answer 5

Before farming, people were hunters and gatherers. These were much harder times, and the population of man didn’t really “take off” until after the development of agriculture.

Answer 6

use ur brain!!!!!!!

Answer 7

people lived off land

nuts and berries etcetera

Answer 8

raw food hunting

Answer 9

fruit, fish and raw meat

Answer 10

They used to eat whatever available around them like fruit,leaf,bark ,animals,fish any thing.

Answer 11

they were hunter-gatherers. So they ate what ever they could catch, or pick. So maybe berries, small animals, and (once language began) larger animals.

Answer 12

The specific items vary by region, but in general:

Stuff they found growing naturally.

Stuff they could hunt and kill.

Answer 13

how crazy!

naturally they were eating fruits n nuts, and flesh.

what ever was available in the forest and nearby trees.

Answer 14

they ate fellow mammals and other animals, living creatures on the world available that time.

Answer 15

prior to the incept of farming people were hunter/gatherers and ate whatever they were lucky enough to find.

Answer 16

Fish

Answer 17

My guess is that people lived near estuary-like environs and ate fish, clams, oysters, insects, fruits and vegetables, roots and berries: Whatever they could find in a semi aquatic enviornment.

I'm a believer in the Aquatic Ape theory, that man was tending toward a watery life, much like whales did or otters are in the process of doing today. The high amounts of protein from fish and seafood would have supported the great brain development we have inherited from these ancestors.

Hunting is possible but I doubt that man would have been a very effective hunter until his brain developed. More likely he would probably have been a scavenger, maybe finding a dead animal here or there but mostly surviving on plant and root life, or as a near-total vegetarian, like apes are today.

But something changed us along the way and we developed a planning brain, that made us effective hunters and we eventually left the estuaries to become hunters and eventually to discover farming and become farmers.