... instead. 12 Consequences of the Neolithic 65 Unquestionably, the fi rst farmers had lots of children. It has been estimated that, on the eve of the earliest of the Neolithic Revolutions, “Our ... Consequences of the Neolithic 63 and harvesters of crops, as well as caretakers of the home and caregivers to the children. 4 Men, previously hunters, were now often herdsmen, providing more in the way of ... rule, such as the equestrian nomads of the American Great Plains. Their lifestyle, which permitted a rich and varied diet, had made them the tallest people in the world by the middle of the nineteenth...