Neolithic AgeOr

New Stone Age-2 Batch 2:19th October

Batch 1: 21th October

Homework Activity: Recipe Book

You have learnt about the food eaten by the Paleolithic age and Mesolithic Age people. This SLM contains the

food eaten by the Neolithic Age people.

Let’s make a recipe book.

Create a Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic Age Recipe book.

You need to have at least one recipe per age.

You may include all the ingredients given n the slide above.

Your recipe may involve cooking as

Fire was used by everyone!

Agricultural

Revolution-

The time when human

begins first

domesticated plants and

animals and no longer

relied entirely on

hunting and gathering.

Most historians believe that

women were the first people to

begin farming.

This led to a slow change as

women began to raise and harvest

plants while men continued to

hunt for food.

Early farming was most

likely a process of trial and

error.

Many Neolithic

settlements had pits or

buildings to store crops.

Storing crops allowed early

farmers to keep their food

supply steady.

Farming developed in several

parts of the world at about the

same time.

What early farmers grew

depended largely on their

region’s climate.

Researchers generally believe

that barley and wheat were the

first crops that were planted

and harvested.

• Man domesticated wild wheat.•Ancient charred

wheat grains are

shown in the

picture above.

• Thousands of years ago, an ear of corn did not make much of a meal. (top)

• It took thousands of years of careful breeding for ears of corn to reach their present size. (bottom)

Food:• During this period, man became a food

producer.

• He started cultivating crops.

• Wheat and barley were the first cereals to be grown.

• He also realized that more animals could be domesticated for various purposes.

• Dogs were useful as guard animals and hunting companions.

• Sheep, goats, cows and pigs were domesticated to provide milk, meet, wool and skin.

• After man started farming, people mainly ate cereals, some vegetables, meat and milk.

• Archaeologists have found grinding stones for grinding seeds into flour, pots for cooking or storage, seeds and tools used for farming.