Why adopt the Neolithic package?
There are many reasons way the package was adopted so quickly:
Increased carbohydrates in the diet- important for energy, recovery, and generally a healthier diet
Population increase- during this period a large population increase is seen meaning that there was a much larger strain on the wild resources in settlement areas. A domesticated way of life meant more control over the amount of food that was during produced, and meant that communities could all be fed
Feasting- now that animals were being kept, and didn’t have to be hunted, feasting could become more common
Source of personal wealth- in a community without a monetary system livestock was an important source of wealth, the more animals someone owned the richer they were in the society
Though within this new way of life there are different patterns of adoption. In the Neolithic we see for the first time permanent settlement sites, communities being tied to the land that they farm, no longer moving across the landscape in search of food. Evidence suggests that some sites became fully domesticated where as others partially relied on their past hunter and gather ways.
There are many different impacts of the domestic diet on the human body:
Relying of wild resources put greater stress on the body, especially the teeth
Though many of the earliest domesticated plants were not the most nutritious as most were often easiest to domesticate
Though in the long run domesticated resources offered better nutritional valves, wild resources caused deficiency in some areas
In the beginning of the package when there was a very few amount of domesticated crops nutrition would have been bad as the diet was lacking in many elements
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