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- To increase agricultural production, significant innovations were introduced and a number of new crops were cultivated, adding to the diversity of food resources, especially in areas characterized by poor soils or during periods of drought.
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Feb 28, 2011 · The change from a hunter-gatherer to a farming way of life is what defines the start of the Neolithic or New Stone Age. In Britain the preceding period of the last, post-glacial hunter-gatherer...
- BBC - Hands on History - Ancient Britain: Activities for Families and ...
Travel back in time and discover what life was like in...
- BBC - History - Ancient History in depth: Bronze Age Britain
The large burial sites of the early Bronze Age were a thing...
- BBC - Hands on History - Ancient Britain: Activities for Families and ...
Key learning points. Bronze was harder, longer lasting and could be made sharper than wood or stone tools. This meant that larger areas of wildwood could be cleared for agriculture and more crops could be planted. This meant that a surplus could be traded or stored in case of disaster.
Between 3300 and 1500 BC Britons became largely pastoral, reverting only with a major upsurge of agricultural activity in the Middle Bronze Age. This loss of interest in arable farming was accompanied by a decline in population, seen by the authors as having a climatic impetus.
- Chris J. Stevens, Dorian Q Fuller
- 2012
The large burial sites of the early Bronze Age were a thing of the past, as the land was now needed for agriculture. The late Bronze Age was also signatured by advanced pottery-making techniques...
This chapter examines the revolutions in agricultural adaptation, beginning with Aegean Greece, where the Bronze Age occurs earlier than most other parts of Europe, and moving throughout Europe by geographical region.
- Lynne A. Kvapil
- 2020
Changing agriculture in Britain during the Iron Age. I can describe how the use of iron impacted farming during the Iron Age. 1 Slide deck. 1 Worksheet. 2 Quizzes. 1 Video.
May 22, 2014 · Archaeological research in Central Eurasia is exposing unprecedented scales of trans-regional interaction and technology transfer between East Asia and southwest Asia deep into the prehistoric past...
