FOOD TECHNOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: The early humans were hunter-gatherers. Then, they began producing their food by cultivation of crops and also domesticated animals.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hunter-gatherer culture is a type of subsistence lifestyle that relies on hunting and fishing animals and foraging for wild vegetation and other nutrients like honey, for food. Until approximately 12, 000 years ago, all humans practiced hunting-gathering.

Detailed explanation-3: -Their staple food crops were grains such as wheat and barley, alongside industrial crops such as flax and papyrus. Archaeological evidence also suggests that the spread of agriculture was facilitated by the influx of farming communities from the tropical Sahara 6, 500 years ago.

Detailed explanation-4: -Agriculture brought about important changes. Man gave up his nomadic life and settled down at one place in selected areas. He could grow his own food. He no longer was a wanderer or gatherer and settled down in one place.

Detailed explanation-5: -Agricultural communities developed approximately 10, 000 years ago when humans began to domesticate plants and animals. By establishing domesticity, families and larger groups were able to build communities and transition from a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle dependent on foraging and hunting for survival.