Agricultural Revolution:

Around 10,000 years ago, People decided to stop moving around in search of food. Humans started to work the land by cultivating crops and farming domesticated animals. Moving from the hunter gathering to cultivating crops.

Changes the Agricultural revolution bought:

• Domesticaton of animals: Buffalo, cattle and sheep
• Increase in food security
• Seasonality of food – dependent of geographical climate and area.
• Changes in food diversity
• Populations density – as people stopped being Nomadic – Village life
• Roles changed and diversified – such as brick making
• Technological processes developed – Food processing such as Milling.
• Social Hierarchies
• Trading developments
• Disease and deficiences.

Changes to food preparation:

• Cooking
• Milling
• Fermentation
• Preservation – Egyptians Hieroglyphics show fish being dried in the sun.