For more that 4 million years human beings and their ancestors roamed the landscape in search for plants and animals for nutrition.

The life of a hunter-gatherer was not an easy one. Cycles of drought, unusually cold winters, and floods all threaten even the most prepared hunter-gatherer. In response, many hunter-gatherers began managing the landscape. Plant resources in given areas were very subtly tended and cultivated. While this isn't domestication, per se, it was a step in the agricultural direction.

Its very important to remember that the line between hunter-gatherers and other food producing strategies (pastoralism and agriculturalism) is very blurry. Hunter-gatherers often did things (such as managing the landscape) that could easily be interpreted as behavior normally associated with agriculturalists or pastoralists.

Where do you draw the line?

The Predynastic cemetery HK 43 at Hierakonpolis (Upper Egypt), which dates to 3600 BC, has the earliest recorded examples of hair extensions and hair die in the entire world.