Historians have divided the past into many ways to make their life so much easier. They have divided into many eras. The first one was the The Paleolithic Era also known as the Old Stone Age. The next one was the Mesolithic Era which was in between the Paleolithic and Neolithic Era. As mentioned before the Neolithic Era was after the Mesolithic Era and was also known as the New Stone age. During the Neolithic Era a great discovery was made. This was farming or agriculture. During the stone ages there were many advantages and disadvantages for getting food through hunting and farming.

First of all, there are advantages for being a hunter. For example, hunters have more nutritional foods because they usually eat meat. Meat is uch roe nutricional than the grains that farmers produce. Also hunters have less responsibilities because they don’t have to worry about their livestock and their crops. This huge responsibility would slow them down. Lastly, a hunter’s life was so much simpler than one of a farmers. Hunters didn’t need to make sure the crops had enough water or if they had good soil. It was a calmer and more simple life. To summarize, being a hunter had its …show more content…
One of the was that because farmers were able to produce large amount of foods. Producing large amounts of food was called a Surplus. Farming allowed other people to work or learn to do different things. This was called division of labor. People were now able to become religious leaders, government officials, crafters, etc. Furthermore, another advantage was that having a lot of food made the population of people to grow. This caused the communities to grow. Also another advantage of farming was that they were able to stay put in one area which allowed the to have a stable food supply. If drought or any other type of complication occurred they would have their food stored. These are only some of the advantages of being a