Religion was invented by human beings during the Neolithic period, that's the time frame where humans went from
roaming hunter gatherer groups to small permanent farming villages.
Not exact matches
Another possibility, Allaby says, is that the nomadic
hunter -
gatherers of southern Britain
roamed much farther into the European mainland than previously realized, picked up wheat or wheat products from farmers to the east, and brought them back to Britain.
According to a once - popular hypothesis, the Younger Dryas created an environmental crisis that forced the Natufians,
hunter -
gatherers who
roamed the largely treeless steppes of the eastern Mediterranean region, to begin domesticating plants and animals to ensure that they had enough to eat, thus spurring the world's first experiments with agriculture.
The area surrounding Lake Turkana in Kenya was lush and fertile 10,000 years ago, with thousands of animals — including elephants, giraffes and zebras —
roaming around alongside groups of
hunter gatherers.
Our
hunter -
gatherer ancestors, whose genes we share almost unchanged, would
roam their environments on the hunt for food for hours or even days on end.
Where humankind once
roamed in small groups of
hunter -
gatherers and foraged for food and shelter, then learned to plant crops and build structures.
Circa 10,000 BC Homo sapiens transitioned from
roaming bands of
hunter -
gatherers to farming communities that settled in order to cultivate wheat.
As nomadic
hunter -
gatherers, we Penan people have been
roaming the rainforests of the Upper Baram region for centuries.