The main reason why some archaeologists believe that women were the first farmers was because the men were almost always out hunting, leaving the women at home to farm.
Early settlers experienced challenges such as,attacks from American Indians and crop failure leading to starvation.
The settlers were able to overcome starvation by introducing corn farming in addition to tobacco farming. One of the major reasons why farmers had faced starvation was because the spent most of the time farming tobacco. in addition, Indians were very hostile,a problem that was resolved by increasing numbers of settlers and living together.
