Prehistoric agriculture

transition from hunter gatherer to settled peoples

Old name for prehistoric field systems in Europe

thumb|Use of the digging stick for tillage in the [[Nuba Mountains, Southern Sudan (2001 photograph)]] Hoe-farming is a primitive form of agriculture defined by the absence of the plough. Tillage in hoe-farming cultures is done by simple manual tools such as digging sticks or hoes. Hoe-farming is the earliest form of agriculture practiced in the Neolithic Revolution. Early forms of the plough (ard) were introduced throughout the Near East (Naqada II) and Europe (Linear Pottery culture) by the 5th to 4th millennium BC. The invention spread throughout Greater Persia and parts of Central Asia, r

underground cists used to protect the seeds