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Give the reasons why the early man changed from hunting and gathering to plant and animal production.

Give the reasons why the early man changed from hunting and gathering to plant and animal production.

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Kavungya
- Overhunting leading to the need to domestic certain animals
- Climatic changes as increased drought created deserts and threatened plant and animal life. Man could no longer rely on nature for his livelihood.
- Competition for food between man and animals and between man themselves due to population increase resulted in inadequate food. They had to look for alternative source of food.
- Hunting and gathering had become a tiresome job as people had to wonder over a large area to get adequate food.
- Increasing aridity forced man to share water with certain wild animals which were eventually tamed.
- Some like cattle were domesticated as a result of acquiring and keeping them for sacrificial purposes.
- Some were fairly social and they learnt to tolerate and eventually accept man as part of larger social group eg. Cattle, sheep, goats and dog
- Need for security.
Kavungya answered the question on April 18, 2019 at 12:45

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