An exploration of the revolutionary period of prehistory that began when humans abandoned the nomadic hunting and gathering existence they had known for millennia to take up a completely new way of life – the decisive move to farming and herding the ration of permanent settlements and the discovery of metals setting the stage for the arrival of the world’s first civilisation. Explains why and how humans abandoned the nomadic hunting and gathering and take up a completely new way of life - the decisive move to farming.