Early Neolithic farmers (about 7000–5000 BCE) were among the first people to stop living as full-time hunter-gatherers and begin building permanent villages. They domesticated plants like wheat, barley, and legumes, and raised animals such as sheep, goats, pigs, and cattle. With farming came bigger families, pottery, new stone tools, and long-term houses made from mudbrick, wood, and clay. Life was still hard: diets lacked variety, diseases spread more easily, and communities sometimes faced foo

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