What are the different methods for harvesting apples?

Archaeology, concentrated in Europe and the Middle East suggested that Middle Eastern farming took place significantly later to that of Europe, where farming tended to be largely if not exclusively, of grain crops and plants originating in the wetter Mediterranean climate and mountain foothill areas of the Middle East. As a result a number of scholars proposed that around 12,500 years ago as the world's climates were changing, hunter-gatherers were forced to turn to alternative methods of obtaining food. Climatic changes over time forced some people to work much harder and travel longer distances in search of food. Over thousands of years, hunter-gatherers unconsciously adjusted to their surroundings. Hunter-gatherers began to stay near reliable sources of water and bring wild seeds back to their base camp to plant nearby. The Australian archaeologist Vere Gordon Childe maintained that the key factor in this change was that global climates at the end of the last ice age became warmer and drier, making plants more efficient at producing crops but encouraging settlement near water sources. But paleoclimatology and the study of sub-fossil pollen demonstrated that after the ice age climates in the region had actually turned wetter, requiring that the forces governing Childe's "Neolithic Revolution" be revised.