Not long after the last Ice Age.around 7,000, BC.,some hunters and gatherers began to rely chiefly on agriculture for their sustenance.Others continued the old pastoral and nomadic ways. Indeed ,agricluture itself evolved over the course of time,and Neolithic peoples had long known how to grow crops.The real transformation of human life occurred when huge numbers of people bgan to rely primarily and permanently on the grain they grew and the animals they domesticated.