Neolithic Societies

As farming increasingly supplanted foraging and even hunting as the main subsistence practice for many humans, the early sedentary villages of hunter-gatherers and early cultivators changed. Some were abandoned, but others, like Jericho, continued to be occupied and changed according to the changes wrought by sedentary agricultural lifestyles. Click the buttons below to explore a few examples of how Neolithic villages changed as farming and the "Neolithic package" became increasingly cemented in everyday life.