Question

Man passed from the food gathering stage to the food producing stage in the_____.

Answer 1

Hint: This is the age of the use of polished stone implements, development of permanent dwellings, cultural advances such as pottery making, domestication of animals and plants, the cultivation of grain etc.

Complete answer:
Man passed from the food gathering stage to the food producing stage during the Neolithic Age some 12,000 years ago.As the youngest period of Stone Age history of man ,Neolithic stage has been understood as a well-defined stage. The features of Neolithic age are:
1) Man became sedentary in nature and hence developed interpersonal relationships to consolidate a form of cooperative existence. Thus, the social organization became more complex than earlier.
2) This change, it is argued, became necessary because of a change of economy. This change in economy is taken to be caused by man getting land-tied because of adopting new agricultural techniques.
3)Since agriculture involved two entirely new areas of interaction with the natural environment, the artifacts through which these interactions were accompliced were counted as Neolithic attributes.

Note: Slowly in course of time, the later Neolithic periods denoted with the discovery of smelting and creation of copper tools have been identified as Chalcolithic period and then thereafter cultures with bronze artefacts have been given the name or coined as Bronze Age.