ثورة العصر الحجري الحديث

هذا المقال هو عن تقديم الزراعة أثناء العصر الحجري. إذا كنت تريد later historical breakthroughs in agriculture، انظر agricultural revolution.

ثورة العصر الحجري الحديث Neolithic Revolution أو الانتقال الديمغرافي في العصر الحجري الحديث، وأحياناً تسمى الثورة الزراعية, was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, allowing the ability to handle an increasingly larger population. These settled communities permitted humans to observe and experiment with plants to learn how they grew and developed. This new knowledge led to the domestication of plants.

منجل حصاد من سومر يعود إلى سنة 3000 ق.م.

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الانتقال الزراعي

انظر أيضاً: الحبوب القديمة

Map of the world showing approximate centers of origin of agriculture and its spread in prehistory: the Fertile Crescent (11,000 BP), the Yangtze and Yellow River basins (9,000 BP) and the New Guinea Highlands (9,000–6,000 BP), Central Mexico (5,000–4,000 BP), Northern South America (5,000–4,000 BP), sub-Saharan Africa (5,000–4,000 BP, exact location unknown), eastern North America (4,000–3,000 BP).

Knap of Howar farmstead on a site occupied from 3,700 BC to 2,800 BC

The term Neolithic Revolution was coined in 1923 by V. Gordon Childe to describe the first in a series of agricultural revolutions in Middle Eastern history. The period is described as a "revolution" to denote its importance, and the great significance and degree of change affecting the communities in which new agricultural practices were gradually adopted and refined.

استئناس النباتات

Neolithic grindstone for processing grain

Once agriculture started gaining momentum, human activity resulted in the selective breeding of cereal grasses (beginning with emmer, einkorn and barley), and not simply of those that would favour greater caloric returns through larger seeds. Plants that possessed traits such as small seeds or bitter taste would have been seen as undesirable. Plants that rapidly shed their seeds on maturity tended not to be gathered at harvest, therefore not stored and not seeded the following season; years of harvesting selected for strains that retained their edible seeds longer.

An "Orange slice" sickle blade element with inverse, discontinuous retouch on each side, not denticulated. Found in large quantities at Qaraoun II and often with Heavy Neolithic tools in the flint workshops of the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon. Suggested by James Mellaart to be older than the Pottery Neolithic of Byblos (around 8,400 cal. BP).

الزراعة في أوروبا

Szentgyörgyvölgy cow - 4500 BC

Tilling with Hungarian Grey cattles

The fertile Carpathian Basin was the place where Europeans survived the Ice Age. The territory between the Danube and the Tisza rivers was the powerhouse of the agricultural knowledge.

الزراعة في أفريقيا

وادي النيل، مصر

استئناس الحيوانات

للمزيد من المعلومات: Domestication

استئناس الحيوانات في الشرق الأوسط

Dromedary camel caravan in Algeria

العواقب

التغير الاجتماعي

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الثورات اللاحقة

Domesticated cow being milked في مصر القديمة.

الأمراض

Llama overlooking the ruins of the Inca city of Machu Picchu.

ببليوگرافيا

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• Evidence for food storage and predomestication granaries 11,000 years ago in the Jordan Valley [1].
• Co-Creators How our ancestors used Artificial Selection during the Neolithic Revolution

انظر ايضاً

• Çatalhöyük, a Neolithic site in southern Anatolia
• Aşıklı Höyük، في الأناضول
• Natufians, a settled culture preceding agriculture
• Behavioral modernity
• Original affluent society
• Haplogroup G (Y-DNA)
• Haplogroup J2 (Y-DNA)
• Haplogroup J (mtDNA)
• Haplogroup K (mtDNA)
• Neolithic tomb
• Surplus product
• Göbekli Tepe
• Mehrgarh, a Neolithic site in Balochistan

وصلات خارجية

• The Agricultural Revolution at YouTube: Crash Course World History #1