Hunter-Gatherers to Farmers

The transition of hunter-gatherers to farmers is one of the biggest things in history. If they had never settled down and became farmers we wouldn’t be living like this and we probably wouldn’t have the skills and technology that we have now. And New Guinea wouldn’t be that different from the world like most of the country is.

                 Thousands of years ago the Middle East was thriving with forests, trees, and plants. The people here were hunter gatherers. They would follow their food, always wondering if they would be able to eat another day. People picked berries, fruits, and anything else they might be able to find. These people came across fields of wheat and barley; these can be stored and last for a really long time. They finally realized that they didn’t have to walk looking for food. They would grow wheat and barley, and raise animals like goats for milk, meat, and wool. Jordan had the earliest village like this known in the world, consisting of about 40 people. They would stay close to any source of water and plant the seeds next to their village. They created a room to store these grains keeping them dry, setting a course to modern civilization with this creation of this room.

Now, in modern times, only in the rainforest of Papua New Guinea can you still find these types of people. The women here chop down the Sago tree and eat the inner pulp because that might be all they can find. The problem is, it takes days to make and it doesn’t last long. They have been farming there in highlands for 10,000 years but the foods grown never had enough protein. They eat tarrow root, bananas, and sago. People don’t get a lot of protein from these plants either. This makes the people not as ‘strong’.