Gathering The tradition is that gathering is what women did, while hunting is what men did. But women certainly snared small animals, and fished, and probably men also gathered nuts and picked fruit.
Gathering means collecting plants that grow wild for food .
In the Middle Stone Age , this was the main source of food. Around 10,000 BC , in the New Stone Age , people began farming , and therefore spent less time gathering. Now they grew grain instead of gathering it. People soon also began to grow carrots and peas and lentils, but they continued to pick mushrooms, herbs, berries, apples, pears, olives, and nuts. By the Bronze Age , around 3000 BC , people planted more kinds of food and gathered less.