Lecture Science Pour Tous 06 "The history of cereals and legumes: the invention of agriculture in the Neolithic period"

In the history of mankind, the Neolithic period (around 10,000 to 2,500 BC) is a prehistoric period marked by profound technical and social transformations, linked to the adoption by human groups of a subsistence model based on agriculture, then livestock farming, and generally involving the settlement of populations. Almost everywhere, farming communities have acquired two essential plant foods that they have domesticated and cultivated: cereals and legumes. The aim of this presentation is...