Why did prehistoric people start farming?

Question

how they learn farming?

what tool they used?

how they saved the food?

Answer 1

Nomadic, hunter-gatherer people such as the San bushmen of the Kalahari desert, who utilise plants for food but have no formal agriculture, will  after digging up a tuber (for example) replace a part in the ground -so that the plant will grow again for the next time that they or another person passes that place. This looks distinctly like the origin of agriculture.

Answer 2

Primitive farming probably started by scattering a few seeds from wild grains and fruits.  As man became more adept at planting, harvesting and storing, the end result was stable communities that ceased to migrate or didn't migrate very much.  Then the population grew according to the harvest.  With more food in storage, the mortality rate decreased and the population increased.  So the long and short of it is, farming came first and the population increase came second.

Answer 3

Some plants found in the wild leant themselves to being farmed and then being selectively bred to improve the productiveness of the crop.

Wheat is a good example of this.  It started out as a grass and grew readily in most soils.  The grain is easily stored and keeps a long time if kept dry.  It can be selectively chosen for the plants that have larger grains and that ripen earlier.  

It is easy to plant and farming methods evolved over time to speed up the planting, harvesting processes.  For many centuries farming processes were pretty much the same until mechanisation came along and replaced all the labourers with larger and larger machines.

Answer 4

They were force to start growing their own food supply when the population grew to a point that it could not be supported by hunting and gathering.  There tools were very primitive to start.  probably planted with a sharpened stick and used sharpened stones for tilling the soil and killing weeds.  Food was preserved by drying and storing out of the weather.  Meats and fish were preserved by smoking and drying.

Answer 5

i guessed they learned by watching nature

they might have used wood objects or some other things

Answer 6

It was easier than following your food around all day.

Answer 7

2 possibilities.

1.  Too little food around and some wise guy start thinking about how to produce their own food

2.  Too much food around them and too heavy to carry around.  So they have to settle down where they got their food, build their home there and eventually planting their own food.

Answer 8

To be able to stay in one location with out having to move around looking for food and all. hope ot helps

Answer 9

you can make more food by farming than you can gathering. you can store your crop so that you have food in the cold weather when gathering fails you'll have food. i suspect they saw some grain they spilled somewhere sprout and what was just a little grew a lot. your questions can only be guessed at since we weren't there to see.

Answer 10

To prevent starvation due to over population when they couldn't feed everyone with hunting and gathering.  They learned by trial and error and observing the way things grew in nature. Sharpened sticks and chipped stones which they used for hunting.  Food was saved by drying and smoking.  In some cases they preserved meat by allowing it to freeze.  Of course this is just speculation because it was before recored history.

Answer 11

-their surroundings (nature)

-stones??

-store in caves?

Answer:

They needed to survive and the population was growing. They needed food and things rather than meat.

Answer 12

They simply practiced starvation for the night, then really thought about it the next morning. For the sake of the hustle, they came up with different strategies know as: 1)foraging 2)horticulture 3)pastoralism 4)agriculture. Foraging lifestyle involves collecting wild plant and animals foods, production based on technological mastery (i.e Nomadic lifestyle involved alot of frequent movement due to the carrying capacity. Then comes the Horticulture as a subsistence strategy, based on crop production without soil preparation, fertilizers, irrigation, or use of draft animals. It was based on extensive technology; knowledge, skills, and tools- requires understanding of plant cycles, seasonal weather conditions, soils, when and how to harvest, how to winnow hulls from seeds, and how to select and store seeds for the next season's planting. Sedentary lifestyle it was -Slash-and-burn-.