MESOLITHIC AGE
NEOLITHIC AGE
In the Neolithic age, humans began sharpening and grinding stones. Along with the end this advancement of tools, was the beginning of agriculture. Humans from the Neolithic age used the stones and tools to plant grains such as wheat and barley. Humans also started to settle into more permanent lifestyles, starting to take advantage of the bionic environment.
Approx. 11,000 to 9,000 years ago, the Mesolithic age is known as the stage of incipient food production or the Holocene period. This age also marked the end of major glaciations and in turn caused the replenishing of water bodies by aquatic bodies. Humans are now specialized food gatherers now thus ending, ‘starving periods’ that earlier humans have suffered from.
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As early humans start to drop the nomadic lifestyle, they start settling in a particular environment and start communities. These communities will soon be large enough, that we now consider them as the early civilizations, where humans will develop more things such as laws and more ways for livelihood, in turn they will develop a way of living or culture (Winthrop 1996).
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