How did the advent of farming affect life among Neolithic peoples?

A map highlights the locations of several early civilizations.

A partial world map highlights the early civilizations of Egypt in North Africa, Sumer in Southwest Asia, the Indus civilization in South Asia, and Shang China in Eastern Asia. The map shows the formation of Egyptian civilization along the Nile River, Sumerian civilization along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, the Indus civilization along the Indus River, and Shang China around the Huang-He and Yangtze Rivers.

Although he was baptized for a change in the way the stone works, the Neolithic is a complex phenomenon that marks the end of predation as a way of life and the beginnings of agriculture and livestock.

About 12,000 years ago, the way of life of human beings who inhabited certain geographical areas began to radically transform. Predatory occupations, such as hunting and gathering, were gradually replaced by others of a productive nature, such as the domestication of animals and the cultivation of land and, in this way, the societies of Homo sapiens gradually abandoned nomadism and subsistence economy to become sedentary and producers of their own food.