Neolithic Social Changes

The agricultural transition was a gradual process that began in the Neolithic era. It spread all throughout the world and lead to many changes. One of the most significant of these changes was the impact of the Agricultural transition on the Neolithic social structures. During the Neolithic era, the introduction of agriculture drastically changed the social structures of Neolithic people. It greatly and permanently altered the building blocks of the Neolithic social structure which included roles, statuses, and social classes. It also affected what the social structures influenced. During the early stages of the Neolithic era, Neolithic villagers had only two separate roles based on gender. Male Neolithic people were hunters; suppliers of meat from animals. On the other hand female Neolithic people were foragers; seekers/pickers of anything edible in the environment. However, when agriculture was discovered by the Neolithic people, they understood they could get more food from cultivation and domestication. As a result, most of the Neolithic people adopted new roles to accommodate an
Agriculture allowed some Neolithic people, who no longer had to worry about producing food, start to specialize on other enterprises and improve technologies which lead to the creation of industries. These specialized laborers received an augmentation of wealth and population began to grow even more. Due to these things, Neolithic villages and towns grew into large cities. In these cities, even more diverse professions where created. People were now holding the statuses/professions of craft workers, governor officials, community figures, rich land owners or basic cultivators. Unlike before where people were only holding statuses of hunter or forager, man or woman. In a similar matter, wealth was now divided unequally between the Neolithic people. Ultimately, agriculture lead to the definite formation of social