The Rise of Agriculture

In the text of this module, I understand the modernization of society and how agriculture stabilizes the nomad group and concentrates it in one place. Text and video clips supporting it explain the positive and negative anthropological impacts of the rise of agriculture. Three positive results include stability, nutrition improvement, excessive diet and so on. For each of these positive situations there are alternative and negative impacts such as habitat destruction, feast and famine cycles, health problems, and so on.

The cultivation of crops and animals is called agriculture. Before the rise of agriculture people were nomadic hunter gatherers. In other words, they look for food every season. With the rise of agriculture, people abandoned the nomads, the way of life of hunter gatherers, and to the village. As agricultural technology improves, farmers sometimes produce surplus. For example, farmers may grow more than their families and villages can use. The extra is economic surplus. Early income in rural areas is not limited to food, but also includes other products such as cloth, wool and animal skin. Surplus helped the village through a bad season

Robert J. Braidwood In the 1950s and 1960s, the theory of the rise of agriculture was divided into two major categories: one that saw the cause and the growth of agriculture. People who attributed agriculture to a single cause like Childe were the most important when the first theory of theoretical agriculture was formed. Robert J. Braidwood, which is very contrary to Childe's theory, belongs to the second category. In his "nuclear zone hypothesis", Breadwood suggested that agriculture began in the hilly areas of Zagros and the Taurus Mountains (Braidwood 1958: 1426). He believes that the rise of agriculture depends only on the fact that people are ready - the combination of tools is sufficiently advanced, the mills are everywhere and new food sources are used (Bladewood 1958 : 1426)