Humanity's footsteps Season 2 Episode 1 The Neolithic farmer directed by Agnès Molia and Thibaud Marchand
Sur nos traces die spur du steine Le premier paysan réalise per regie Agnès Molia & Thibaud Marchand

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Molia, Agnès, director.

Marchand, Thibaud, director.

Heritage Broadcasting Service, issuing body.

Language:

English

French

Undetermined

Subjects (All):

Neolithic period--France.

Neolithic period.

Farmers--France--History.

Farmers.

Genre:

Nonfiction films

Short films

Documentary films

Feature films

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (26 minutes)) sound, color

Place of Publication:

[Eugene, Oregon] Heritage Broadcasting Service [2014]

Language Note:

In French with English subtitles

System Details:

digital

Summary:

The Neolithic period (5500 to 2500 BC) marked the beginning of settled life based on agriculture and domestic animals. In the preceding, Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods, modern humans were nomadic hunter-gatherers. However, in the Middle East, nearly 12,000 years ago, humans invented domestication-livestock farming and agriculture. The hunter-gatherers then transformed themselves into sedentary farmers: it was the Neolithic Revolution. This Revolution's radically different life-way spread in several millennia into what is now Western Europe. This Neolithic Revolution was accompanied by an unprecedented demographic surge, as the heightened food-productivity of agricultural technologies was able to support larger human population densities. Neolithic settlers and colonizers reached Western Europe around 5500 BC. They brought with them new domesticated animal species that were, until then, unknown in Western European regions: sheep and goats

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed on July 24, 2025)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license