This may also have helped to prevent the spread of disease. The community transported their wastes, human/animal in clay pots to larger ‘landfill’ sites. Alternatively, they may have burnt the trees and plant life directly where it stood and this provided organic carbon amendment to the surrounding soil, similar to the result of a forest fire. The settlers may also have used fires or clay kilns to burn trees and plant materials to create charcoal. They had invented a new form of agriculture.Īs the settler population grew more food they needed more food, so each process got a little more industrialised. It is a surmise on our part, but once these settlers had noted the effects of their middens there was no stopping them. To sustain a large population you must have a large and ‘reliable’ food source to feed everyone.
The settled way of life with improved agriculture often leads to population growth with luck civilisation follows. Larger populations lead to civilisation and agriculture Also, plants in the surrounding soil may have started to flourish around these small mounds of decaying material. We see evidence of this same process today in piles of compost or solid human sewage. Seeds in the diet of these early settlers would have passed through them and into the middens. A few weeks or months later the wastes would transform into compost and enrich the surrounding soil.
This waste may have accumulated in small piles or middens and left to rot. Finally, each family/small community would have produced human waste. Also in preparing food there would have been organic food waste from plant materials to fish skin and animal bones. As a result, the fire would have produced small amounts of charcoal/ash. In turn they discard or dispose of waste products for sanitation purposes.įires would have been needed for heat at night and to cook food. As soon as people settle the problems of being in one place arise they need to grow food. Hunter-gatherers would usually be on the move, but civilisation starts with settlement and then agriculture. Since the dawn of time, humans have needed shelter, food and water to survive.
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