Neolithic

(noun)

The later part of the Stone Age, during which ground or polished stone weapons and implements were used.

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Examples of Neolithic in the following topics:

  • The Neolithic Revolution

    • The Neolithic Revolution and invention of agriculture allowed humans to settle in groups, specialize, and develop civilizations.
    • That change was the Neolithic Revolution.
    • The beginning of the Neolithic Revolution in different regions has been dated from perhaps 8,000 BCE in the Kuk Early Agricultural Site of Melanesia Kuk to 2,500 BCE in Subsaharan Africa, with some considering the developments of 9,000-7,000 BCE in the Fertile Crescent to be the most important.
    • Neolithic populations generally had poorer nutrition, shorter life expectancies, and a more labor-intensive lifestyle than hunter-gatherers.
    • The way we live today is directly related to the advances made in the Neolithic Revolution.

  • The Rise of Egyptian Civilization

    • It is equivalent to the Neolithic period, and is divided into cultural periods, named after locations where Egyptian settlements were found.
    • The Harifian culture migrated out of the Fayyum and the Eastern deserts of Egypt to merge with the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B; this created the Circum-Arabian Nomadic Pastoral Complex, who invented nomadic pastoralism, and may have spread Proto-Semitic language throughout Mesopotamia.
    • Around 6000 BCE, Neolithic settlements began to appear in great number in this area, likely as migrants from the Fertile Crescent returned to the area.

  • The Mythical Period

    • The Neolithic Chinese cultivated a number of crops; the most important was a grain called millet.

  • The Xia Dynasty

    • The various small states that had comprised Neolithic and Bronze Age China contradicted this version of history.

  • River Valley Civilizations

    • These early civilizations began to form around the time of the Neolithic Revolution (12000 BCE).

  • Dates and Calendars

    • Methods of timekeeping can be reconstructed for the prehistoric period from at least the Neolithic period.

  • The Germanic Tribes

    • This is a region that was "remarkably stable" as far back as the Neolithic Age, when humans first began controlling their environment through the use of agriculture and the domestication of animals.