Infobox archaeological culture is being considered for merging. › The Neolithic (from Greek νέος néos 'new' and λίθος líthos 'stone'), or New Stone Age...

The Neolithic Revolution, also known as the First Agricultural Revolution, was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures during the Neolithic period...

The European Neolithic is the period from the arrival of Neolithic (New Stone Age) technology and the associated population of Early European Farmers...

divided the Neolithic period of Greek history into six phases: Pre-Pottery, Early Neolithic, Middle Neolithic, Late Neolithic I, Late Neolithic II and Final...

famously called the Venus of Macomer. These statuettes, which date from the Neolithic period, share stylistic and iconographic similarities with the Upper Paleolithic...

Southwest Asia, the Late Neolithic, also known as the Ceramic Neolithic or Pottery Neolithic, is the final part of the Neolithic in the Near East, following...

The Neolithic decline was a rapid collapse in populations between about 3450 and 3000 BCE during the Neolithic period in western Eurasia. The specific...

The Neolithic Revolution, which established agriculture as the dominant way of life, occurred around 12,000 BC and ushered in the Neolithic. Neolithic society...

is being considered for merging. › The Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) represents the early Neolithic in the Near East, dating to c. 12,000 – c. 8,500 years...

The Neolithic in China corresponds, within the territory of present-day China, to an economic revolution during which populations learned to produce their...

Infobox archaeological culture is being considered for merging. › The Neolithic period in the British Isles lasted from c. 4100 to c. 2,500 BC. Constituting...

Judaidah Tell Tayinat Alalakh Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) is part of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, a Neolithic culture centered in upper Mesopotamia and...

Egypt" is traditionally defined as the period from the final part of the Neolithic period beginning c. 6210 BC to the end of the Naqada III period c. 3000...

The Neolithic demographic transition was a period of rapid population growth following the adoption of agriculture by prehistoric societies (the Neolithic...

Neolithic Dwellings Museum in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria is a museum in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, which contains ruins of two of the oldest surviving buildings...

The Neolithic in the Near East is a period in the prehistory of Western Asia that began with the transition from a Paleolithic to a Neolithic way of life...

period in the development of human technology between the Palaeolithic and Neolithic. The Mesolithic period began with the retreat of glaciers at the end of...

'Potbelly Hill'; Kurdish: Girê Mirazan or Xerabreşkê, 'Wish Hill') is a Neolithic archaeological site in Upper Mesopotamia (al-Jazira) in modern-day Turkey...

Neolithic architecture refers to structures encompassing housing and shelter from approximately 10,000 to 2,000 BC, the Neolithic period. In southwest...

The Neolithic creolisation hypothesis, first put forward by Marek Zvelebil in 1995, situates the Proto-Indo-European Urheimat in northern Europe in Neolithic...

group of the Anatolian Neolithic Farmers (ANF) who brought agriculture to Europe and Northwest Africa. The Anatolian Neolithic Farmers were an ancestral...

Neolithic ashmounds (also referred to as cinder mounds) are among the earliest known evidence of human occupation in the Indian subcontinent. Found primarily...

1 mi) south of the city's historic centre. The site was occupied from the Neolithic period into the first millennium AD and became the largest and best-known...

merging. › Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) denotes the first stage of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, in early Levantine and Anatolian Neolithic culture, dating to...

Heart of Neolithic Orkney is a group of Neolithic monuments on the Mainland of the Orkney Islands, Scotland. The name was adopted by UNESCO when it proclaimed...

Infobox archaeological culture is being considered for merging. › Shepherd Neolithic is a name given by archaeologists to a style (or industry) of small flint...

according to the German Oriental Society [DMG]: Šīr/Arabic: شير) is a Late Neolithic site in western Syria, located 12 km northwest of Hama, capital of the...

Pottery culture (LBK) is a major archaeological horizon of the European Neolithic period, flourishing c. 5500–4500 BC. Derived from the German Linearbandkeramik...

Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic. The term Epipaleolithic is often used synonymously, especially for outside...

known as the Mesolithic era; and the final stage known as the Neolithic era. Neolithic peoples were the first to transition away from hunter-gatherer...

period over the Eastern Mediterranean and Levant; "Neolithic pluvial"; "Neolithic Subpluvial"; "Neolithic wet phase"; "Nouakchottien" of the Western Sahara...

latter half of the 20th century, artifacts bearing markings dating to the Neolithic period have been unearthed at several archeological sites in China, mostly...

This is a list of human Neolithic settlements sorted in chronological order. Copper Age state societies Neolithic Revolution List of Mesolithic settlements...

Neolithic Tibet refers to a prehistoric period in which Neolithic technology was present in Tibet. Tibet has been inhabited since the Late Paleolithic...

Heavy Neolithic (alternatively, Gigantolithic) is a style of large stone and flint tools (or industry) associated primarily with the Qaraoun culture in...

Pottery began to appear at the start of the British Neolithic period, along with other changes in lifestyle. These changes included a switch to settled...

The Pastoral Neolithic (5000 BP - 1200 BP) refers to a period in Africa's prehistory, specifically Tanzania and Kenya, marking the beginning of food production...

Neolithic tombs are structures built by humans during the New Stone Age. The main types in Northwestern Europe, particularly Ireland, include passage...

The Neolithic period in Switzerland spans approximately from 6500 to 2200 BCE, marking the transition from hunter-gatherer societies to agricultural communities...

Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of the Gods is a cognitive archaeological study of Neolithic religious beliefs in Europe...

stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the densest complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred tumuli...

Skara Brae (/ˈskærə ˈbreɪ/) is a stone-built Neolithic settlement located along the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Mainland, Orkney. The site was...

Neolithic Italy refer to the period that spanned from circa 6000 BCE, when Neolithic influences from the east reached the Italian Peninsula and the surrounding...

characterized by the increasing use of smelted copper. It followed the Neolithic and preceded the Bronze Age. It occurred at different periods in different...

Western Neolithic ware, also known as Western style Neolithic pottery or New Stone Age pottery in the Western-style, is a type of pottery of the Early...

Harappan in the same area. The early Harappan cultures were populated from Neolithic cultures, the earliest and best-known of which is named after Mehrgarh...

proto-writing during the Neolithic and Bronze Age include: The Jiahu symbols carved into tortoise shells, found in 24 Neolithic graves excavated at Jiahu...

Jade or other types of greenstone were used in China, Olmec Mexico, and Neolithic Europe, and in early Mesopotamia large pottery shapes were produced in...

Neolithic site Okolište is located in the municipality of Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was proclaimed a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina...

in Jiangxi, China, which date back to 18,000 BC. Other early Neolithic and pre-Neolithic pottery artifacts have been found, in Jōmon Japan (10,500 BC)...

"In the Neolithic Age" is a poem by the English writer Rudyard Kipling. It was published in the December 1892 issue of The Idler and in 1896 in his poetry...

Europe following a prolonged period of relative isolation during the Neolithic. In its mature phase, the Bell Beaker culture is understood as not only...

The Savanna Pastoral Neolithic (SPN; formerly known as the Stone Bowl Culture) is a collection of ancient societies that appeared in the Rift Valley of...

Dardanelles, and separates Anatolia from Thrace in Southeast Europe. During the Neolithic period, Anatolia was an early center for the development of farming after...

The First Temperate Neolithic (FTN) is an archaeological horizon consisting of the earliest archaeological cultures of Neolithic Southeastern Europe, dated...

years, before numbers began to expand again in the Late Stone Age. The Neolithic Y-chromosome bottleneck refers to a period around 5000 BC when the diversity...

This is a list of Neolithic cultures of China that have been unearthed by archaeologists. They are sorted in chronological order from earliest to latest...

communities may be the ancestors of the builders of the region's first Neolithic settlements, which may have been the earliest in the world. Some evidence...

The Neolithic flint mines of Spiennes are among the largest and earliest Neolithic flint mines which survive in north-western Europe, located close to...

Agriculture in West Asia can be traced back to the early Neolithic in the Near East, between 10,000 and 8,000 BC, when a series of domestications by human...

ancestry had a resurgence in Western Europe from the Early Neolithic to the Middle Neolithic. WHGs represent a major population shift within Europe at...

human remains from Neolithic times onward. During that time, trephined skulls were commonly found in central Europe. After the Neolithic era, trephination...

The Neolithic period in the United Arab Emirates is generally dated to c. 6600–3300 BCE and represents a major phase in the prehistory of south-eastern...

scattering of crescent-shaped microlith tools behind. The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A phase at Tell es-Sultan (c. 8500–7500 BCE) saw the emergence of one...

Maeshowe (or Maes Howe; Old Norse: Orkahaugr) is a Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland Orkney, Scotland. It was probably...

Holocene epoch and is entirely within the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) phase of the Early Neolithic. It is impossible to precisely date events that happened...

represent three bent human limbs. It occurs in artefacts of the European Neolithic and Bronze Ages with continuation into the Iron Age, especially in the...

The Ring of Brodgar (or Brogar, or Ring o' Brodgar) is a Neolithic henge and stone circle about 6 miles north-east of Stromness on Mainland, the largest...

Trihedral Neolithic is a name given by archaeologists to a style (or industry) of striking spheroid and trihedral (i.e., composed of three planes) flint...

Subclades of T-M70 appear to have been present in Europe since the Neolithic with Neolithic Farmers from Western Asia. The moderately high frequency (~18%)...

Vráble-Veľké Lehemby is a significant archaeological site from the early Neolithic in southwestern Slovakia. It stands out from many other settlements of...

It marks the beginning of the transition from the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic via the interim Mesolithic (Northern Europe and Western Europe) and Epipaleolithic...

Paleolithic Epigravettian culture; Neolithic Early European Farmers who migrated from Anatolia during the Neolithic Revolution 9,000 years ago; and Yamnaya...

groups are also very closely related to Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers and pastoralists in the Iranian Plateau (Iranian hunter-gatherer...

33% Central Zagros Neolithic (represented by Neolithic Ganj Dareh) and 19% South Levant Neolithic components (represented by Neolithic Ayn Ghazal). A 2022...

during the Early Holocene. The Neolithic begins on Crete around 9000 years Before Present /7000 BC. In the Neolithic period, some of the early influences...

Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, and subsequently by Neolithic and Bronze Age farmers and later by Picts during the Iron Age. Orkney...

Yumin-hunter gatherers and Middle Neolithic Haminmangha (HMMH_MN) individuals can likewise be modeled as a mixture of Early Neolithic Shandongers and West Baikal-related...

Western Europe in the fifth and fourth millennia BCE, during the Early Neolithic period. Typically constructed from earth and either timber or stone, those...

The Taş Tepeler (Turkish, literally 'Stone Mounds') are a group of Neolithic archaeological sites in Upper Mesopotamia (al-Jazira), near the city of Urfa...

period to the rise of agriculture, domestication, and pottery in the Neolithic period across present-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan,...

Euphrates rivers gave rise to the first known Neolithic farming settlements (referred to as Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA)), which date to around 9,000 BCE...

"Early European Neolithic" languages that is associated with the Neolithic spread of agriculturalists into Europe. Early European Neolithic languages were...

The Hatfield Neolithic Trackway (Lindholme Trackway) was discovered in 2004, and is one of the oldest known ancient timber trackways in England. The trackway...

distinct species. Pigs were domesticated independently twice during the Neolithic, in the Near East around the Tigris Basin, and in China. When domesticated...

The Ness of Brodgar is a Neolithic-era archaeological site covering 2.5 hectares (6.2 acres) located between the Ring of Brodgar and the Stones of Stenness...

hypothesis. They proposed that eight plant species were domesticated by early Neolithic farming communities in Southwest Asia (Fertile Crescent) and went on to...

Parța Neolithic Sanctuary refers to an excavated Neolithic cult-centre or shrine located on the right bank of the Timiș River at Parța, south of Timișoara...

assimilated a wave of "farmers" who had arrived from the Near East during the Neolithic about 8,000 years ago. The Mesolithic era site Lepenski Vir in modern-day...

to a population genomics lineage representing the Mesolithic to early Neolithic population of the Iranian plateau, South Asia, South-Central Asia and...

Near East. It is the period after the Upper Palaeolithic and before the Neolithic, between approximately 25,000 and 11,500 years Before Present. The people...

the Neolithic with evidence of agriculture across the Levant to the Zagros Mountains in modern-day Iran. The key characteristic of the Neolithic is agricultural...

south of Sais. The Neolithic period at Sais consists of three phases. The earliest phases are Early Neolithic (Sais I) and Late Neolithic (Sais II). During...

The Neolithic long house was a long, narrow timber dwelling built by the Old Europeans in Europe beginning at least as early as 6000 to 5000 BC. They...

The Standing Stones of Stenness are a Neolithic monument five miles northeast of Stromness on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. This may be the oldest...

Karahan Tepe is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic archaeological site in Şanlıurfa, Turkey. The site is in the same geographical region as Göbekli Tepe, and archaeologists...

systems emerged from earlier traditions of symbol systems in the early Neolithic, as early as the 7th millennium BC China and southeastern Europe. Some...

that was in the Neolithic but did not make use of pottery. He called it the Pre-pottery Neolithic, as opposed to the Pottery Neolithic, subsequently often...

and the Bronze Ages. Northwestern Europe was in the Neolithic. China was dominated by the Neolithic Yangshao culture. The Americas were in a phase of transition...

Paleolithic diets than Neolithic diets may have also allowed Paleolithic hunter-gatherers to enjoy a more nutritious diet than Neolithic agriculturalists....

A henge can be one of three related types of Neolithic earthwork. The essential characteristic of all three is that they feature a ring-shaped bank and...

wagons for long-distance travel. They are also closely connected to Final Neolithic cultures, which later spread throughout Europe and Central Asia, especially...

in the Lower Paleolithic, with various tribes inhabiting it from the Neolithic onward, chiefly the Celts, and Germanic tribes inhabiting the north. Romans...

accretion resulting from long-term human settlement) of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed...

Near East. The prehistoric period covers the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age societies of Ireland. For much of Europe, the...

 › The Burgundy Middle Neolithic (BMN; French: Néolithique moyen bourguignon, NMB) is an archaeological culture of the Neolithic period, dated between...

The Nabta Playa archaeological site, one of the earliest of the Nubian Neolithic Period, is dated to circa 7500 BC. Although today the western Egyptian...

World population growth relaxed after the burst that came about from the Neolithic Revolution. World population was largely stable in this time at roughly...

It was published in 2025 by Grand Central Publishing and is set in the Neolithic period, when Stonehenge was created. Follett visited Stonehenge with his...

eastern Delta region. Around 8000 BCE, the Sahara had a wet phase, the Neolithic Subpluvial (Holocene Wet Phase). There is very little evidence of human...

insular; that is, modified from the traditional Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic and Chalcolithic of European prehistoric cultures. The islands of the...

animals at early Pastoral Neolithic sites. These preliminary herding cultures are characteristic of the Pastoral Neolithic and generally lack stationary...

culinary traditions. In Switzerland, the processes of establishment of the Neolithic economy, of which agriculture is only one of the components, although...

millennium and the storages of domesticated crops of the Near East Neolithic. The Neolithic era was originated with agriculture in the Middle East around this...

comprise a corpus of markings on prehistoric artifacts found in Jiahu, a Neolithic site of Peiligang culture in Henan, China. The Jiahu symbols are dated...

constructed in the thirty-seventh century BC, during Britain's Early Neolithic period. Today it survives in a partially reconstructed state. Archaeologists...

the municipality of Lebane. Cultural deposits at the site date to the Neolithic, Copper, Bronze, and Early Iron Ages. Discovered in 2017, it has been...

14,000 BC. Elsewhere, ground stone tools became important during the Neolithic period beginning about 10,000 BC. These ground or polished implements...

represent a clear break from those of the preceding Late Neolithic period. During the Late Neolithic, burials were often secondary and burial treatment was...

10,200 BC, fully developed Neolithic cultures, characterized by the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (7600 to 6000 BC) phases...

rapid world population growth of the previous millennium, caused by the Neolithic Revolution, is believed to have slowed and become fairly stable. It has...

weathered away, leaving only the stone "skeleton" of the burial mound intact. Neolithic dolmens are extremely numerous, with over 1,000 reported from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern...

Durrington Walls is the site of a large Neolithic settlement and later henge enclosure located in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in England. It lies...

evidence points towards the first signs of organized violence in Early Neolithic Europe. Warfare is thought to have been more prevalent in primitive, ungoverned...

found in remains of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB), which is part of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, a Neolithic culture centered in upper Mesopotamia...

Shimao (Chinese: 石峁; pinyin: Shímǎo) is a Neolithic site in Shenmu County, Shaanxi, China. The site is located in the northern part of the Loess Plateau...

preceding the Iron Age. Conceived as a global era, the Bronze Age follows the Neolithic ("New Stone") period, with a transition period between the two known as...

The Locmariaquer megaliths are a complex of Neolithic constructions in Locmariaquer, Brittany. They comprise the elaborate Er-Grah tumulus passage grave...

8,000 and 6,000 BC (approximately 9000 years ago), in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period. They represent some of the oldest forms of art in the Middle...

Avebury (/ˈeɪvbəri/) is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in south-west England....

to Iran. Mesopotamia is the site of the earliest developments of the Neolithic Revolution from around 10,000 BC. It has been identified as having "inspired...

semiaquatic crops, most notably rice and taro. It originates from the Neolithic rice-farming cultures of the Yangtze River basin in southern China, associated...

(/ˈljɑːŋˈdʒuː/) culture or civilization (3300–2300 BC) was the last Chinese Neolithic jade culture in the Yangtze River Delta. The culture was highly stratified...

January 1977, it was merged into Mons. The locality is well known for its neolithic flint mines, which are on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites since...

New evidence for the intentional use of geothermal resources during the Neolithic period at Bagno dei Frati within the thermal complex of Terme di Sorano...

Drogheda. It is an exceptionally grand passage tomb built during the Neolithic Period, around 3100 BC, making it older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian...

Branjevina near Deronje, Odžaci: Neolithic Vlasac near Lepenski Vir: Mesolithic-Neolithic Beli breg and Ugar, Opovo: Neolithic (Vinča culture) Karaburma, Horseman's...

Mesolithic hunter-gatherer cultures are subsequently replaced in the Neolithic Revolution as a result of the arrival of Early European Farmer (EEF) lineages...

in "Pre-Pottery Neolithic A" and "Pre-Pottery Neolithic B" phases, instead preferring "Early Aceramic Neolithic" for the proto-neolithic and PPNA, and "Late...

and Ukraine, around the Dniester and Southern Bug rivers, during the Neolithic era. Over the course of approximately 1,300 years (from the years 6300–5000...

Neanderthals. The aurochs is depicted in Paleolithic cave paintings, Neolithic petroglyphs, Ancient Egyptian reliefs and Bronze Age figurines. It symbolised...

modern Turkey. It is dated c. 9000 BC to the period of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, and was considered as "the oldest naturalistic life-sized sculpture of...

tourist attractions. The Minoan civilization developed from the local Neolithic culture around 3100 BC, with complex urban settlements beginning around...

only exceptions are the felling dates for some construction timbers from Neolithic wells in Central Europe. This millennium is reckoned to mark the end of...

Great Wilbraham is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure, an archaeological site near the village of Great Wilbraham in Cambridgeshire, England. The enclosure...

between 6000–3000 BCE. In Tamil Nadu, the Neolithic period had its advent around 2500 BCE. Humans of the Neolithic period made their stone tools in finer...

List of Mesolithic and Epipaleolithic settlements. List of Neolithic settlements Sarah Gibbens, "Face of 9,000-Year-Old Teenager Reconstructed", National...

as Turdaș culture, Turdaș–Vinča culture or Vinča-Turdaș culture, is a Neolithic archaeological culture of Southeast Europe, dated to the period 5400–4500...

the early Neolithic period, human settlements began to appear in southwestern and inland Arabia. By the sixth millennium BC, the Neolithic economy had...

is an 8.5-metre-tall (28 ft) stone structure built in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period around 8000 BC. It is part of Tell es-Sultan, a UNESCO World...

1987, proposes that the dispersal of Proto-Indo-Europeans originated in Neolithic Anatolia. It is the main competitor to the Kurgan hypothesis, or steppe...

Muge Culture in the Tagus valley. 5th millennium BC Beginning of the Neolithic in the Iberian Peninsula. Autochthonous development of Agriculture in...

emerged. The Neolithic 'revolution' was a major juncture in human history. The Peiligang culture and the Cishan culture are the earliest Neolithic cultures...

The dolmens of Jersey are Neolithic sites, including dolmens, in Jersey. They range over a wide period, from around 4800 BC to 2250 BC, these dates covering...

lineage of F. lybica, altough early interactions between wildcats and Neolithic human settlements occurred across a broad geographic range. Advances in...

The Significance of Monuments: On the Shaping of Human Experience in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe is an archaeological book authored by the English...

following the Last Glacial Maximum, and in the expansion associated with the Neolithic Revolution. Dmanisi skull 5, found in Dmanisi, Georgia, is among the earliest...

groups dispersed with early farming technology in the Neolithic, the birthplace of the Neolithic Revolution being in West Asia. The leading linguistic...

Shillourokambos (Greek: Σιλλουρόκαμπος) is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) site near Parekklisia, 6 km (3.7 mi) east of Limassol in southern Cyprus....

Africa during the Neolithic Subpluvial period (about 8000 to 4000 BCE). Some parts of North Africa began to participate in the Neolithic revolution in the...

Daojali Hading Daojali Hading is a Neolithic site in Dima Hasao District of Assam, India on a low hillock about 1000 feet above sea level, dated to about...

Mehrgarh is a Neolithic archaeological site situated on the Kacchi Plain of Balochistan in Pakistan. It is located near the Bolan Pass, to the west of...

India, the Neolithic began in 6500 BCE and lasted till around 1400 BCE when the Megalithic transition period began. The South Indian neolithic period is...

the care of English Heritage. Silbury Hill is part of the complex of Neolithic monuments around Avebury, which includes the Avebury Ring and West Kennet...

color (orange, brown and, sometimes, red) and natural beauty since the Neolithic times, and worked as a gemstone since classical antiquity. Amber is used...

being considered for merging. › Cardium pottery or Cardial ware is a Neolithic decorative style that gets its name from the imprinting of the clay with...

Chinese jade refers to the jade mined or carved in China from the Neolithic onward. It is the primary hardstone of Chinese sculpture. Although deep and...

the Neolithic human skeletal remnants of a tall, middle-aged man was found; the remnants possessed traits closer to other Sudanese of the Neolithic era...

symbols are a set of undeciphered symbols found on artifacts from the Neolithic Vinča culture and other "Old European" cultures of Central and Southeast...

decorative figured workings also seen on some utilitarian objects. In the Neolithic evidence of early pottery appeared, as did sculpture and the construction...

environmental organization in England En (deity), in Albanian mythology Early Neolithic, an archaeological period Engineer En (Lie algebra), a family of En Lie...

(c. 1250 BCE). They most prominently comprise spiritual traditions of Neolithic and early Bronze Age cultures in various regions of China, which preceded...

Europeans of the Mediterranean region, and that is being of primarily Neolithic Early European Farmer ancestry, along with smaller, but still significant...

Asians, such as the earlier expanding "Neo-Siberians" evident in the Early Neolithic Baikal region. In North Asia, an early branch of the Ancient Northern...

the Topolnitsa River show that a Neolithic community has been present as early as 7,000 years ago. The study of Neolithic culture "Chavdar" began in May...

north-central Europe. It developed as a technological merger of local neolithic and mesolithic techno-complexes between the lower Elbe and middle Vistula...

Gürcütepe is a Neolithic site on the southeastern outskirts of Şanlıurfa in Turkey, consisting of four very shallow tells along Sirrin Stream that flows...

has revealed burials associated with the Moroccan Early Neolithic, Levantine Pre-Pottery Neolithic, and Bell Beaker culture. Fregel et al. 2018 examined...

culture emerged in the period 2000-1750 BC as a continuation of the Late Neolithic Dagger period, which is rooted in the Battle Axe culture (the Swedish-Norwegian...

Маџари) is a Neolithic settlement located in the north-eastern part of Skopje, North Macedonia and it is the most significant Neolithic settlement in...

The Hawk Stone is a Neolithic standing stone just north of the hamlet of Dean, Oxfordshire, England. The name either derives from its shape, being like...

the dead or communally adding future burials as had been the case with Neolithic cairn tombs. At Balnuaran of Clava itself there is a group of three Bronze...

archaeological sites in Scotland and Northern Ireland, focusing on the society of Neolithic Orkney by excavating the settlement of Skara Brae and the chambered tombs...

water. Very early Neolithic wells are known from the Eastern Mediterranean. The oldest reliably dated well is from the pre-pottery neolithic (PPN) site of...

New Zealand, the Pacific Coast and Atlantic Coasts of North America, Neolithic Europe, and southeast Asia. The name nephrite is derived from Latin lapis...

palaeolithic period, and evidence suggests settled human life during the neolithic period. During the Vedic period, Indo-Aryan tribes migrated into Kasmira—the...

its name to the earliest known Neolithic culture of Europe, which inhabited Thessaly and parts of Macedonia. The Neolithic settlement was discovered in...

Lasting for approximately 1,700 years, it was preceded by the era of Neolithic Britain and was in turn followed by the period of Iron Age Britain. Being...

the outdated but historically prominent North European hypothesis, the Neolithic creolisation hypothesis, the Paleolithic continuity paradigm, the Arctic...

Wayland's Smithy is an Early Neolithic chambered long barrow located near the village of Ashbury in the south-central English county of Oxfordshire. The...

significance between 3000 BCE and 1000 BCE. Periods I and II represent the Neolithic era; Period III the Megalithic era (of massive stone menhirs and wheel...

Thomas FSA (born 1959) is a British archaeologist, publishing on the Neolithic and Bronze Age prehistory of Britain and north-west Europe. Thomas has...

the 20th century for the salt, after an initial period of mining in the Neolithic period and during the Ancient history. The use of coal on site to evaporate...

Anatolia. Jericho is the type site for the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) periods. Epipaleolithic construction at the...

(including both E3b2 and J haplogroups is largely of Neolithic origin, which suggests that the Neolithic transition in this part of the world was accompanied...

Körtiktepe or Körtik Tepe is the oldest known Neolithic archaeological site in Turkey, occupied from 10,700 BCE (C14 cal. 10,687 BCE ± 78 years) at the...

chambered cairn is a burial monument, usually constructed during the Neolithic, consisting of a sizeable (usually stone) chamber around and over which...

Lithuanian archaeologist and anthropologist known for her research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of "Old Europe" and for her Kurgan hypothesis...

In the Neolithic and Bronze Age of Ireland and the British Isles, rock art was produced across various parts of the islands. Petroglyphic in nature, the...

on May 16, 2006, in the Cultural category. Magapit Protected Landscape Neolithic Shell Midden Sites in Lal-lo and Gattaran Municipalities - UNESCO World...

archaeological horizon of Europe between c. 2900 BC – 2300 BC, thus from the Late Neolithic, through the Copper Age, and ending in the early Bronze Age.:14 Corded...

Iran, which had more continuous settlement. Eurasian tells date to the Neolithic, the Chalcolithic and the Bronze and Iron Ages. In the Southern Levant...

produced between the 8th millennia BCE and the 4th millennia BCE (late Neolithic and early Bronze Age), preceded the emergence of monarchic tumuli; the...

Southeastern Europe, dating to the Neolithic period between c. 6200 and 4500 BCE. It originates in the spread of the Neolithic package of peoples and technological...

of Homo sapiens. It includes Mesolithic (c. 11.5 ka ago - 5.6 ka BC), Neolithic (c. 5.6 - 3.2 ka BC) and the Metal Ages: Chalcolithic or Copper Age (c...

500–9,000 BC, or 10,700–9,500 BP, roughly 8,700–7,500 BC, is an Initial Neolithic site near Lake Baiyangdian in Xushui County, Hebei, China. The site was...

large amount of early Neolithic pottery together with a large quantity of animal bone, and flint tools of both Mesolithic and Neolithic types. The Coneybury...

11,000 years ago on the north Fujian coast, travelled to Taiwan with Neolithic settlers 6,000 years ago, and from there spread to Maritime Southeast...

by the cultures of West Asia and Central Asia as far back as the late Neolithic period and the early Bronze Age, when bronze technology, pottery and ornamation...

Grevinge, Denmark, c. 2350 – c. 1950 BC. Late Neolithic longhouse, Denmark, c. 1900 BC. Late Neolithic longhouse remains, Denmark, c. 1900 BC. Bronze...

unknown. In Transylvania specifically this applies to the Paleolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Iron Age.[citation needed][dubious – discuss] (2,600...

been found in the Shanidar Cave. The cave also contains two later "proto-Neolithic" cemeteries, one of which dates back about 10,600 years and contains 35...

culture (Bulgarian: Карановска култура, romanized: Karanovska kultura) is a Neolithic culture (Karanovo I-III ca. 62nd to 55th centuries BC) named after the...

archaeologist, from Nidzica, known for his contributions to the study of the Neolithic periods in Poland and the Near East. Ryszard Feliks Mazurowski has finished...

BC with the emergence of Neolithic II (Ceramic Neolithic). At this time newcomers arrived in Cyprus introducing a new Neolithic era. The main settlement...

transition between the Mesolithic and the Neolithic. The culture of Su Carroppu represents the earliest phase of the Neolithic in Sardinia (6th millennium BC)....

Xinglonggou is a Neolithic through Bronze Age archaeological site complex consisting of three separate sites. The sites are located on a loess slope above...

(líthos), meaning "stone". Most extant megaliths were erected between the Neolithic period (although earlier Mesolithic examples are known) through the Chalcolithic...

(Algeria) Rock art of the Djelfa region (Algeria) Neolithic Europe The Alunda moose is a Neolithic artistic stone axe c.2000 B.C. that was found in Uppland...

this interpretation, the only set of figures pertaining to the Neolithic, or to a Neolithic-first Copper Age phase (4th mill. BC), is constituted by the...

a large flat horizontal capstone or "table". Most date from the Late Neolithic period (4000–3000 BCE) and were sometimes covered with earth or smaller...

kilometers west of modern Kermanshah. It was occupied from the Early Neolithic Period to Middle Bronze Age and, after a time of abandonment, in the Islamic...

Nemrik 9 is an early Neolithic archeological site dated to c. 9800-8270 BC (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A), in the Dohuk Governorate in the north of modern-day...

beneath blanket bog. The site has traditionally been interpreted as a Neolithic farming landscape dating to the fourth millennium BCE, based on radiocarbon...

around 4000 BC, the island was populated by people with a Neolithic culture. This neolithic population had significant ancestry from the earliest farming...

Amy Bogaard FBA is a Canadian archaeologist and Professor of Neolithic and Bronze Age Archaeology at the University of Oxford. Bogaard earned a PhD from...

numerous important prehistoric remains in Orkney, especially from the Neolithic period. Four of these remains today constitute a World Heritage Site....

Mesolithic Era continues to be debated by scientists. From the middle of the Neolithic onward, there is a certain extent of agreement among scholars: it has...

Africa. The most important source of gene flow to North Africa from the Neolithic Era onwards was from Western Asia, whereas the Sahara Desert to the south...

terms for a transitional period between the Last Glacial Maximum and the Neolithic Revolution in Old World (Eurasian) cultures. 80 kya – 40 kya: Evidence...

Καρδίτσας), is a Neolithic clay figurine found in the area of Karditsa in Thessaly, Greece. This artifact, dating back to the Final Neolithic period (4500-3300...

Eurasian geneflow event happened during the Neolithic period, or already during the Holocene (pre-Neolithic period) by Iranian hunter-gatherers. There...

also share a common ancestry with neighboring groups in Neolithic southern China. These Neolithic pre-Austronesians from the coast of southeastern China...

study has been relocated to the Dorset Museum. Half of the 100m diameter Neolithic interrupted ditch enclosure known as Flagstones is under the grounds of...

edge of Glenrothes, in Fife, Scotland. The site was in use from the late Neolithic period to the late second millennium BC. The prehistoric ceremonial complex...

populations. It has been discovered that populations of the Anatolian Neolithic (Anatolian Neolithic Farmers) derive most of their ancestry from the AHG, with minor...

European languages) are the mostly unknown languages that were spoken in Neolithic (c. 7000 – c. 1700 BC) and Bronze Age Europe (c. 3200 – c. 600 BC) prior...

and Pike of Stickle. Great Langdale was an important site during the Neolithic period for producing stone axes and, later, was also one of the centres...

Goddess is hypothesized to have been worshiped as a creator deity in the Neolithic era across most of Eurasia, at least. Scholarly support for the hypothesis...

several waves of early modern-human migrations before and during the Neolithic, when some groups of anatomically modern humans (contemporaneous Homo...

including the Upper Paleolithic, Holocene Mesolithic/Epipaleolithic, Neolithic Revolution, expansion of Proto-Indo-Europeans, and a period of Protohistory...

Woodhenge is a Neolithic Class II henge and timber circle monument within the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in Wiltshire, England. It is 2 miles (3.2 km)...

A proto-city is a large, dense Neolithic settlement that is largely distinguished from a city by its lack of planning and centralized rule. The term mega-sites...

BC. There is evidence of human activity in the islands since the Early Neolithic Period (c. 5900 BC), attested by pottery sherds, evidence of fires, and...

history by a variety of societies and for a variety of reasons, in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages, this particular tradition was limited to Great...

the neolithic era, when inhabitants of the island began to practice animal husbandry and farming grains. Principal crops grown during the neolithic era...

western forests of the Dnieper towards the western Baltic Sea. During the Neolithic and early Eneolithic, EHGs on the Pontic–Caspian steppe mixed with Caucasus...

Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn (grid reference HY364127) is a Neolithic chambered cairn on Mainland, the main island of Orkney, Scotland, about 6 miles west...

vietas" (PDF). Historia.lv. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cist graves. Pretanic World - Chart of Neolithic, Bronze Age and Celtic Stone Structures...

alluvial plains are therefore virtually devoid of any surface Paleolithic or Neolithic remains dating from before the 7th millennium BC. This is not because...

Late/Final Neolithic settlement on the Greek island of Kea. It is located on a rocky promontory, in the northern part of Kea. The Final Neolithic of the Cyclades...

Humans have inhabited crannogs over five millennia, from the European Neolithic Period to as late as the 17th/early-18th centuries. In Scotland there...

Corsicans and Sardinians. Ötzi traced the majority of his ancestry to the Neolithic early European farmers who migrated from Anatolia to Europe beginning...

by about 2010 it was thought to have formed near the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution, about 10,000 years ago. More recent archaeogenetics studies...

the Pre-Pottery Neolithic culture of the Levant, the Early Neolithic Ifri N'Amr Ou Moussa culture of the Maghreb, the Late Neolithic Kelif el Boroud culture...

agriculture marked the Neolithic era, which spread slowly across Europe from southeast to the north and west. The later Neolithic period saw the introduction...

ascribed to the Mousterian phase in the Middle Paleolithic period. In the Neolithic period in Southeast Europe were founded major cultures like Vinča, Varna...

earliest Neolithic European dog dated 7,000 YBP was found to be a mixture of the Karelian and the Levantine lineages. The lineage of a Neolithic dog dated...

history, the world population was exponentially increasing due to the Neolithic Revolution, which was in full progress. In 10,000 BC, the world population...

circular ancient Chinese jade artifact. The earliest bi were produced in the Neolithic period, particularly by the Liangzhu culture (3400–2250 BCE). Later examples...

are attested since around 54,000 years ago in the Mandrin Cave. In the Neolithic, which begins in the south of France in the middle of the 6th millennium...

pronunciation: [tərtəˈri.a]) are three tablets, reportedly discovered in 1961 at a Neolithic site in the village of Tărtăria in Săliștea commune (about 30 km (19 mi)...

Levant. It spans from the Neolithic period to the present. The earliest developments involved lime plaster vessels, simple Neolithic wares, and decorated forms...

of Great Britain. These monuments emerged around 4000 BCE in the early Neolithic. Tor enclosures are large enclosures situated near natural rock outcrops...

Stone, Herefordshire, Neolithic chambered tomb. Barclodiad y Gawres, Neolithic cruciform passage grave. Belas Knap, Neolithic long barrow. Bryn Celli...

and had ochre pigment and used shellfish which can produce purple dye. Neolithic farming brought permanent settlements. At Balbridie in Aberdeenshire crop...

subsequently spread by later migrations, such as those of the Anatolian Neolithic Farmers into Europe during the Holocene. A 2014 study by Lazaridis et...

 › Samarra Tell Shemshara Tell es-Sawwan The Samarra culture is a Late Neolithic archaeological culture of northern Mesopotamia, roughly dated to between...

Neolithic (SPN), an archaeologically recognized pastoralist culture centered in eastern Africa during a time period known as the Pastoral Neolithic (ca...

China, who derive most of their ancestry from Mekong Neolithic (58.0%–75.2%) instead of Late Neolithic Fujian, which is more common for the "core Austronesian"...

in southern Mesopotamia, documenting the world's first transition from Neolithic village life to a complex urban civilization. This development was catalyzed...

candidates as genetic markers of the spread of farming technology during the Neolithic, which is proposed to have had a major impact upon human populations....

of human habitation at the site are from the Neolithic period and more specifically the Pottery Neolithic A (PNA) period, circa 6000-4000 BCE.[dubious...

The Chalcolithic or Copper Age is the transitional period between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. It is taken to begin around the mid-5th millennium...

and Neolithic Iranian populations derived a significant amount of their ancestry from an ANE-like geneflow. ANE ancestry is present among Neolithic Iranians...

mythology. Tara consists of numerous monuments and earthworks—dating from the Neolithic to the Iron Age—including a passage tomb (the "Mound of the Hostages")...

Bethlehem in Palestine. Avi Gopher (November 1994). Arrowheads of the neolithic Levant: a seriation analysis. Eisenbrauns. pp. 12–. ISBN 978-0-931464-76-8...

between the Mesolithic and the Neolithic. Subneolithic societies typically adopted some secondary elements of the Neolithic package (such as pottery), but...

stones supporting a heavy horizontal capstone and dates to the early Neolithic period, with estimates from 3800 and 3200 BC. Although not the largest...

relative to the Neolithic. Manufacture of obsidian bladelets at Lipari had reached a high level of sophistication by the late Neolithic, and was traded...

suggested examples were once thought to include Neanderthals and the Proto-Neolithic Homo sapiens component (9th millennium BCE) from Shanidar Cave in Iraq...

non-centralized tribal societies, including the cultures of nomadic pastoralists, Neolithic societies, or hunter-gatherers. The word civilization relates to the Latin...

from 7000 to 5500 BCE, this Early Neolithic settlement was occupied for over a thousand years. The Middle Neolithic period (c. 5500 to 4500 BCE) is at...

figures, of which the most famous is the Venus of Willendorf. It is a Neolithic sculpture shaped by an unknown artist, and was completed around 6000 BC...

culture, also known as the Cucuteni culture or Trypillia culture is a Neolithic–Chalcolithic archaeological culture (c. 5050 to 2950 BC) of Southeast...

landscapes of the Caucasus were finally shaped as we have them today. Signs of Neolithic culture, and the transition from foraging and hunting to agriculture and...

of Cumbria, in North West England. These protected sites date from the Neolithic period and include barrows, stone circles, Roman forts, standing stones...

Neolithic, Chacolithic, and Early Bronze Ages but little can be said of the form of occupation. There was a hiatus of occupation after the Neolithic period...

The term Womb Tomb (also, womb-tomb) is a form of Neolithic burial site. Europe's prehistory stretches for some 9500 years, from the earliest settlers...

the outskirts of Jerusalem, Israel. It includes the remains of a large Neolithic settlement dated to around 8600–8200 BCE, and Iron Age Israelite settlement...

in central and southwest Europe, these could mainly be traced to the Neolithic. In the central and eastern Mediterranean, the arrival of the first human...

"Treasure Valley Hill" if tepe/tappeh (hill) is appended to the name) is a Neolithic settlement in western Iran. It is located in the Harsin County in east...

Middle Neolithic individuals from Skhirat-Rouazi in Morocco (4780–4230 BCE), whose own ancestry originates among populations of the Neolithic Levant (76...

This hunter-gatherer ancestry was substantially replaced during the Neolithic revolution, c. 4000 BC, by groups carrying Early European Farmer (EEF)...

dated back to 4,500 year-old used to bury the leaders or chieftains of Neolithic tribes people were revealed in the Cwmcelyn in Blaenau Gwent by the Aberystruth...

is the main food crop and silk is the main commercial crop. Fossils of Neolithic age have been found by excavation in some lands of this Taluk. Vyasatirtha...

Stoneyisland Man is the name given to a Neolithic human skeleton discovered in 1929 in Stoneyisland Bog at Gortanumera, County Galway, Ireland. The remains...

Religion and agriculture have been closely associated since Neolithic times and the development of early Orphic religions based upon fertility and the...

The ability to sail was not only a Neolithic creation. Franchthi Cave provides indirect evidence of pre-Neolithic (11th Millennium BC) seafaring, as well...

dating back to 6,800 BC was found in Konya, Turkey, at the site of the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük. This is believed to be the world's oldest known bread...

Knap – Neolithic long barrow in Gloucestershire Maeshowe – Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave on Mainland, Orkney Duggleby Howe – Neolithic round...

for Wessex Archaeology. He is an expert in the use of stone tools by neolithic people and is himself able to make such tools by flint knapping. Born...

pearl millet may have also been independently domesticated amid the Neolithic. Dhar Tichitt, which includes Dakhlet el Atrouss, may have served as the...

Danubian civilisation, was a relatively homogeneous pre-Indo-European Neolithic and Copper Age culture or civilisation in Southeast Europe, centred in...

Banpo is a Neolithic archaeological site located in the Yellow River valley, east of present-day Xi'an, China. Discovered in 1953 by Shi Xingbang, the...

Ayn Ghazal (Arabic: عين غزال, romanized: ʿayn ġazāl) is a Neolithic archaeological site located in Amman, Jordan, about 2 km (1.24 mi) north-west of Amman...

Natufian, Khiamian, Heavy Neolithic, Pre-Pottery Neolithic A, Pre-Pottery Neolithic B and Neolithic and its relation to other Neolithic cultures such as the...

of 2,569 inhabitants. At the Crkvine locality, the remains of a large Neolithic settlement were found. The settlement belonged to the Vinča culture and...

The Arzachena culture was a pre-Nuragic culture of the Late Neolithic Age occupying Gallura (the northeastern part of Sardinia) and part of southern Corsica...

neighbour-village Moravac, there are numerous archaeological findings from the middle Neolithic period (between 5300 and 4500 BC). According to Tihomir Đorđević, Serbian...

comparison of the anthropology of religion. Some subjects of interest include Neolithic religion, evidence for spirituality or cultic behavior in the Upper Paleolithic...

dates are more certain. Helladic society and culture have antecedents in Neolithic Greece when most settlements were small villages which subsisted by means...

sees the transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic stage throughout the temperate zone. The Neolithic subsequently gives way to the Bronze Age in Old...

marks, unearthed in 1993 during George Hourmouziadis's excavations of the Neolithic site of Dispilio in Greece. A single radiocarbon date from the artefact...

from the Mesolithic, including elk bones and earthenware vessels. In the Neolithic, earthenware vessels and flint axes were deposited in the wetlands, with...

000 years ago (made between 7200 BC and 6250 BCE), from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic C period. A total of 15 statues and 15 busts were discovered in 1983 and...

Grime's Graves is a large Neolithic flint mining complex in Norfolk, England. It lies 8 km (5.0 mi) north east from Brandon, Suffolk in the East of England...

Malta. The change from hunting and gathering to agriculture during the Neolithic Revolution was a watershed in world history. The societies that first...

area in which Castlerigg is located – saw particularly high levels of Neolithic stone circle construction, with other similar examples including Swinside...

site can be subdivided into three distinct layers, early Neolithic A, B, and C. Early Neolithic pollen analysis shows a significant decrease in arboreal...

civilizations. The area saw the Yangshao and Longshan cultures of the Neolithic era and developed into the bronze ware culture of the Shang and Zhou dynasties...

2001(7), s. 77–87 Strömberg, Märta (1984). Burial Traditions in Late Neolithic Society: Models and Results in the Hagestad Project. Meddelanden från...

C., but metals became socially integrated by about 2000 B.C., during the Late Neolithic period—already a bronze age in all but name. Portal: History...

growth rate of 0.027% p.a. from the beginning of the Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age. Neolithic culture and technology reached modern Turkey and Greece...

population, such as has been suggested for the spread of agriculture across Neolithic Europe and several other Landnahme events. Theoretical work by Cavalli-Sforza...

civilization. Northeast China (Dongbei) was an agricultural society during the Neolithic and Bronze ages, which cultivated grains such as millets, buckwheat, echinochloa...

excavations, the burials have been dated to a period between the late Neolithic (San Michele culture, 3200-2800 BC) and the early Bronze Age (Bonnanaro...

Vilske. It is known for its geology, flora and megalithic culture. The Neolithic passage grave Girommen at Ekornavallen, Hornborga parish, Falbygden A...

there is little evidence concerning plants eaten. During the succeeding Neolithic of Capsian Tradition, there is evidence from one site, for domesticated...

also sometimes referred to as the Black Pottery Culture, was a late Neolithic culture in the middle and lower Yellow River valley areas of northern...

monuments, which have been dated to the transitional period between the Neolithic and Iron Ages. Locally known in Kannada as Elllu Guddugulllu (meaning...

Paleo-Siberians were later largely replaced by waves of Neo-Siberians and Neolithic Amur populations, which may be associated with the expansion of early...

Maes-y-Filiast, is a megalithic burial chamber, built around 4000 BC, during the Neolithic period, in the Vale of Glamorgan, near Cardiff, Wales. The structure is...

Atlit Yam (Hebrew: עתלית ים) is a submerged Pre Pottery Neolithic C (PPNC) archaeological site located 300–400 meters off the coast of Atlit, Israel....

The Kintampo complex, also known as the Kintampo culture, Kintampo Neolithic, and Kintampo Tradition, was established by Saharan agropastoralists, who...

"localized and temporarily restricted" during the Late Mesolithic to Early Neolithic period in Europe. Iberian cave art of the Mesolithic shows explicit scenes...

Killaclohane, about 2 km east of Milltown, County Kerry, Ireland. This Neolithic tomb dates to 3800 BC and is Kerry’s oldest man-made structure and earliest...

into Judaea. The village of Wadi al-Far'a is close to a number of Heavy Neolithic archaeological sites of the Qaraoun culture. Three such sites were discovered...

millennium BC, starting in the Mesolithic and continued into the middle Neolithic. It was located in the upper basin of the Neman River (present-day northern...

Art can be roughly divided into three stages, the first stage is the Neolithic, the second stage is from the Qin dynasty to the Northern and Southern...

hillocks (tuleilat, 'small tells') containing the remains of a number of Neolithic and Chalcolithic villages in Jordan. It is the type-site of the Ghassulian...

individuals buried at both the Early Neolithic sites of Ifri N'Amr Ou Moussa in Morocco and the Early Neolithic Cave of El Toro in Spain. They were modelled...

led to significant changes and reliance on agriculture in the Old World Neolithic and New World Formative stage. The agricultural life led to more settled...

Khartoum (8800 to 5000 BP), Khartoum Neolithic (c. 5700-3550 BP, approximately 3750-1600 BC), and Late Neolithic (4th millennium BP). 9km 5.6miles Site...

entered Scandinavia from the north along the Norwegian coast. During the Neolithic, they admixed further with Early European Farmers (EEFs) and Western Steppe...

foods and food processing procedures that had been introduced during the Neolithic and Industrial Periods had fundamentally altered 7 nutritional characteristics...

Khiamian culture is a Neolithic archaeological culture of Southwest Asia, dating to the earliest part of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA), around 9700...

2021-01-23. A. K. SHARMA GU'fkraI1981: An Aceramic Neolithic Site in the Kashmir Valley 1982 "Neolithic site Gufkral facing official neglect". The INS News...

late Neolithic site on the Ness of Grutling, where burnt barley has been found. An area of about 3.3 hectares (8.2 acres) shows signs of Neolithic agriculture...

Kastros is an early Neolithic settlement in Cyprus. Kastros lies at the north-easternmost tip of the Karpas Peninsula (Cape Apostolos Andreas), about...

two of the founder crops cultivated by the first farming societies in Neolithic West Asia. These communities also cultivated naked wheats (T. aestivum...

important time of the yearly cycle for some cultures as far back as the Neolithic (New Stone Age). Astronomical events were often used to guide farming...

La Trinité-sur-Mer. The stones were erected at some stage during the Neolithic period, probably around 3300 BC, but some may date to as early as 4500 BC...

Mesolithic Iron Gates Hunter-Gatherers period and transition to Early Neolithic Early European Farmers period of the Balkans. The latest radiocarbon and...

University. Akkermans was awarded his doctorate for work on the late Neolithic period in Syria. He was a curator at the Netherlands National Museum of...

The Gavà Mines, also known as Can Tintorer Mines, is a pre-historic (Neolithic) archaeological site that occupies the Can Tintorer, Ferreres and Rocabruna...

a large passage tomb surrounded by 17 smaller tombs, built during the Neolithic era around 3200 BC. It contains the largest assemblage of megalithic art...

Hazleton long barrows are a pair of Neolithic chambered tombs located close to Hazleton village in Gloucestershire, England. Part of the Cotswold-Severn...

Desert of southern Egypt that was occupied throughout the African Pastoral Neolithic. Archaeological research has focused primarily on individual burial sites...

Neolithic subterranean tomb in Trigueros, Andalucía, Spain. It is estimated it was built between 2500 and 3000 BC and is one of about 200 neolithic ritual-burial...

occurred between 600 and 700 AD. Man-made stone structures dating to the Neolithic period have been studied in Harrat Khaybar. The basaltic lava fields of...

Monte d'Accoddi is a Neolithic archaeological site in northern Sardinia, located in the territory of Sassari, Italy. The site consists of a massive raised...

Members of the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture shared common features with other Neolithic societies, including: An almost nonexistent social stratification Lack...

isotope analysis, revealed that they date back to the Mesolithic and Early Neolithic periods.[page needed] Most of the sites discovered during the time the...

Paris. 162 pp.; 59 Figs.; 8 Plates., 1989. Gopher, A., Arrowheads of the Neolithic Levant - A Seriation Analysis. ASOR - American Schools for Oriental Research...

Approximately 120–150 Neolithic earthworks enclosures are known in Central Europe. They are called Kreisgrabenanlagen ("circular ditched enclosures")...

oldest continuously inhabited places. Evidence of inhabitance since the Neolithic period has been found and the hill was fortified during the Bronze Age...

focuses on three sites: a burial site from the Early Bronze Age (QA 1), a Neolithic campsite (QA 2), and a settlement from the Iron and Bronze Ages (QA 3)...

ended around the third century BCE. The dolmen culture is linked with the Neolithic and bronze cultures of Korea. Excavation at the sites did not begin until...

considered for merging. › The Narva culture or eastern Baltic was a European Neolithic archaeological culture in present-day Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Kaliningrad...

during the transition period between the Mesolithic and Neolithic. Cardium pottery is a Neolithic decorative style that gets its name from the practice...

April 1916 – 10 June 1998) was an archaeologist in the field of Greek Neolithic Pottery. Helen Laura Cressida Bonham Carter was born in 1916, the first...

Southeastern Europe, dating to the Neolithic period between c. 6200 and 4500 BCE. It originates in the spread of the Neolithic package of peoples and technological...

Pre-Hellenic Europe (1917), Mackenzie argued that across Europe during Neolithic times, pre-Indo-European societies were matriarchal and woman-centered...

second-oldest timber trackway discovered in the British Isles, dating to the Neolithic. The Sweet Track was predominantly built along the course of an earlier...

designed in arched style. The trabeated system is a fundamental principle of Neolithic architecture, ancient Indian architecture, ancient Greek architecture...

for Neolithic settlement in the area is rare, but palaeoecological data shows increasing signs of sporadic cultivation during the late Neolithic and the...

The Chinese Neolithic: Trajectories to Early States. p. 191. David Pankenier, et al. (2008), The Xiangfen, Taosi site: A Chinese Neolithic 'observatory'...

several different groups that occupied southern Great Britain during the Neolithic.[citation needed] Conversely, some archaeologists have argued that some...

presence of European Neolithic farmer ancestry in both the Corded Ware and the Sintashta, combined with the absence of Neolithic farmer ancestry in the...

archaeologist, best known for co-leading the discovery of Mehrgarh, a Neolithic site in Balochistan, Pakistan. Jarrige began working in Balochistan in...

1956. The seated terracotta figure is a well-preserved specimen of small Neolithic Vinča culture (also known as Turdas culture in Kosovo). It measures 18...

Argissa Magoula is a Neolithic settlement mound (tell) in Thessaly in Greece. It was excavated by Vladimir Milojčić from the University of Heidelberg...

The Meehambee Dolmen, also known as the Mihanboy Portal Tomb, is a Neolithic portal tomb located in the townland of Mihanboy, near Athlone in County Roscommon...

R1b-DF27, "is estimated at ~4,200 years ago, at the transition between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, when the Y chromosome landscape of Western Europe...

heroes' portion and meat cooked in cauldrons and on spits. Prior to the Neolithic period in Ireland and advances in farming technology, archaeological evidence...

excavations, revealing a long sequence of human inhabitance from the Neolithic period to the Islamic era. The region's strategic location along ancient...

a Neolithic monument located near Plouezoc'h, on the Kernéléhen peninsula in northern Finistère, Brittany, France. It dates to the early Neolithic, around...

and 1973. A total of 27 graves were examined: 16 were attributed to the Neolithic period, one to the Bronze Age, and ten to the Early Iron Age. All burials...

dates to the sixth millennium BCE, was the first to be excavated from a Neolithic culture, later called the Halaf culture, characterized by glazed pottery...

shoe-last celt was a polished stone tool used during the early European Neolithic for felling trees and woodworking. The term "celt" seems to have come...

Zagheh; these are variously shaped, and are similar to such tokens at other Neolithic sites. These Zagheh tokens are dated typologically to c. 6000 BC. Thus...

2001, 1,156.55 km2 (446.55 sq mi)). Sandstone statues dated to the early Neolithic era indicate that the area has been inhabited for a very long time. Even...

for making pendants and beads by western European cultures of the later Neolithic and early Bronze Age. "Callaïs" is a generic term that includes turquoise...

Akab Island provides unique insights into what are thought to have been Neolithic ritualistic practises, with a unique dugong bone mound discovered there...

approximately 6,000 years old. They were discovered by archaeologists at a Neolithic tomb in San Giorgio near Mantua, Italy, in 2007. The two individuals were...

from the Estonian coastal area and islands might suggest that the "sub-Neolithic" economy remained heavily reliant on marine resources and seasonal hunting...

which one plays a board game. The oldest known game boards may date to Neolithic times; however, some scholars argue these may not have been game boards...

into specific time periods, these being Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic . Norfolk has a very rich prehistoric past, from the Palaeolithic era...

occupation at Hyrax Hill: one which was occupied during the Pastoral Neolithic and late Iron Age, and one which was occupied by the Sirikwa earlier in...

archaeological site consisting of a large Stone Age (i.e. Mesolithic and Neolithic) cemetery with over 400 burials and associated grave goods. It is located...

assumption that the Carians descended from Neolithic settlers, this is contradicted by the fact that Neolithic Caria was essentially desolate.[failed verification]...

southeastern European nations of Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine during the Neolithic Age and Copper Age, from approximately 5500 to 2750 BC, left behind thousands...

of Kołobrzeg, Poland in 2022 that was made 6,000 years ago during the Neolithic period. It is currently in the collection of the Museum of Polish Arms...

Mesolithic. Around 4000 BC, they were replaced by Neolithic farmers who emigrated from the Continent. The Neolithic people had an average of 10% ancestry from...

midden on Oronsay, Inner Hebrides, giving evidence of diet. c. 4000 BC Neolithic period begins in Britain, introducing the first agriculture. c. 3500 BC...

Sayan Mountains, and as far south as the delta of the Red River. The Neolithic period saw increasingly complex polities begin to emerge along the Yellow...

(2005). Prehistoric Figurines: Representation and Corporeality in the Neolithic. Psychology Press. p. 212. ISBN 9780415331524. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored...

Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) farming cultures, practicing animal domestication, during the 6200 BC climatic crisis which led to the Neolithic Revolution/First...

meters outside the village of Anguillara Sabazia, remains of an Early Neolithic lakeshore village, dated to 5700 BC have been found, in works overseen...

Neolithic or "New" Stone Age was a period in the development of human technology that is traditionally the last part of the Stone Age. The Neolithic era...

Holocene Neolithic layer (layer A), accompanied by various stone tools and animal remains. The cave also contains two later proto-Neolithic cemeteries...

Hunter-Gatherer (EHG) admixture. Several males of the Mesolithic Kunda culture and Neolithic Narva culture buried in the Zvejnieki burial ground in modern-day Latvia...

798. Kfar Giladi is also notable for archaeological discoveries such as Neolithic and Chalcolithic findings as well as the remains of a Jewish mausoleum...

BC. The period is a continuous development out of the earlier Pottery Neolithic and is located primarily in the fertile valley of the Khabur River (Nahr...

populations of Neolithic Greece brought agriculture westward into Europe before 5000 BC. Around 5,000 BC, peoples descending from migrant Greek Neolithic populations...

the Neolithic period between approximately 2300-1200 B.C. During the excavations, archaeologists found many artifacts indicative of a Neolithic lifestyle...

and political-economic inequality in southwest Asia, especially in the Neolithic, and concentrates on the southern Levant. He has also been very involved...

identified as Neolithic, and radiocarbon dating of charcoal found in one of the ditches confirmed that the enclosure dated to the Neolithic. A reanalysis...

stone tool for felling trees and woodworking, characteristic of the early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik and Hinkelstein cultures, also called Danubian I in...

housing in prehistoric Korea. These huts were widely used in Korea from the Neolithic Age until the Three Kingdoms period. The floor of the hut would be dug...

7 May 1949) is a British archaeologist and academic, specialising in Neolithic Europe. He was Distinguished Research Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff...

Gwyn Stones (Welsh: Cerrig Bryn Gwyn) or Bryn Gwyn Standing Stones are neolithic stones in Brynsiencyn on Anglesey. The Bryn Gwyn stones stand about 280...

Wetzikon-Robenhausen beginning around 10,000 years ago. Venus of Monruz, c. 9000 BC The Neolithic reached the Swiss plateau before 7,000 years ago (late 6th millennium...

Late Neolithic cultures have affinities with the spread of the Mon Khmer speaking people from Malaysia and the Ayeyarwady valley and late Neolithic developments...

Fellow under the direction of Stuart Piggott. He proposed she should study Neolithic burial monuments, and by 1951, she had begun work on her pioneering study...

artifacts from the town and surrounding area of Ivrea, ranging from the Neolithic Age to the Late Middle Ages; the Oriental Art Collection, stemming from...

state society. World population growth relaxed after the burst due to the Neolithic Revolution. World population was largely stable, at roughly 60 million...

The Rollright Stones are a complex of three Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monuments near the village of Long Compton, on the borders of Oxfordshire...

Normanton Down is a Neolithic and Bronze Age barrow cemetery, about 0.6 miles (1 km) south of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. The burials date from...

farmers, may have contributed to the spread of the Neolithic Revolution to Europe in its Neolithic period. During deglaciation since the Last Glacial...

Jiahu (Chinese: 賈湖) was the site of a Neolithic settlement based in the central plain of ancient China, near the Yellow River. It is located between the...

books on megaliths and neolithic culture. He has focused much of his research on the prehistoric man-made earthwork from the Neolithic period, Silbury Hill...

matters that date back to the Neolithic Age as the region has been a crossroads between Europe and the Middle East. The Neolithic site Çatalhöyük has a number...

River. Excavations show that people were occupying the region during the Neolithic, Bronze, and Iron Ages. This unique sequence has been proven by 76 radiocarbon...

Barkhale Camp is a Neolithic-era causewayed enclosure, an archaeological site on Bignor Hill, on the South Downs in West Sussex, England. Causewayed enclosures...

Brighton, East Sussex, England. Causewayed enclosures are a form of early Neolithic earthwork that were built in England from shortly before 3700 BC until...

entered the Mesolithic around the 7th millennium BC. The transition to the Neolithic is characterized by the Funnelbeaker culture in the 4th millennium BC...

The Later Mesolithic period ends around 4000 BC and is followed by a Neolithic lithic (stone tool) tradition based on hard and soft hammer percussion...

of Israel Ofer Bar-Yosef; Eitan Tchernov; Avi Gopher (1997). An early neolithic village in the Jordan Valley. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology...

The majority of the activity on the site took place during the Middle Neolithic period (3100 – 2700 BC). This phase of activity belongs to the Pitted...

from c. 3200 to 2800 BCE. The Ozieri was the culmination of the island's Neolithic culture and takes its name from the locality where early findings connected...

The Dispilio Lakeside Neolithic Settlement Archaeological Collection is a museum in Dispilio, Greece. It was the first Neolithic settlement by the side...

migrate out of Africa around 200 kya, initially moving to Eurasia. The Neolithic Revolution (or First Agricultural Revolution) brought about an acceleration...

Universities of Amsterdam and Leiden. Traces of settlement from the pre-Pottery Neolithic to the Roman and Parthian times can be identified. In the 1986 excavations...

Pre-Pottery Neolithic, was home to some of the world's first farmers. This almost continuous sequence of occupation through the Neolithic Revolution has...

domestications and polishing of stones, which are possible signs of Neolithic culture, are not known until the discovery of Padah Lin caves in Southern...

side shows two wolves attacking a bull. Evidence was found of a Shepherd Neolithic archaeological site in the area around the monument, on the south and...

(Şomutəpə) is an ancient settlement in the Agstafa District of Azerbaijan. The Neolithic Shulaveri-Shomu culture that formed in the Southern Caucasus is connected...

been divided into PPNB aceramic during levels six to three, with later Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic (Yarmukian and Wadi Rabah) cultures in levels two...

culture c. 6000 – 5200 BC, Ertebølle culture c. 5300 – 3950 BC). The Neolithic stage is marked by the Funnelbeaker culture (4000–2700 BC), followed by...

county of Kent, England. These protected sites date in some cases from the Neolithic period, and include barrows, artillery forts, ruined abbeys, castles,...

by the National Trust and is designated a Scheduled monument for its Neolithic flint mine and Iron Age hillfort. Cissbury Ring is the largest hill fort...

1975) was a Polish historian-archaeologist, specializing in the field of Neolithic studies. Podkowińska was the daughter of the physician Zygmunt (1867–1932)...

[d͡ʒɡɐnˈtiːjɐ]; "place of giants") is a megalithic temple complex from the Neolithic era (c. 3600–2500 BC), on the Mediterranean island of Gozo in Malta. The...

both megalithic and neolithic construction phases; Almendres I 6000 BC (Early Neolithic), Almendres II 5000 BC (Middle Neolithic), and Almendres III 4000...

Middle Neolithic Moroccan site of Skhirat-Rouazi (dated to 4780–4230 BC), which itself consists of predominantly (76.4 ± 4.0%) Levant Neolithic ancestry...

Maumbury Rings is a Neolithic henge in the south of Dorchester town in Dorset, England (grid reference SY690899). It is a large circular earthwork, 85...

Anatolian hypothesis, which places the Proto-Indo-European homeland in Neolithic Anatolia, are less likely to be correct. Arguments for the identification...

capital city Amman. The earliest evidence of settlement in Jerash is in a Neolithic site known as Tal Abu Sowan, where rare human remains dating to around...

between the Sardinians' genome and that of some individuals from the Neolithic and the early Chalcolithic, who lived in the Alpine, German, and Hungarian...

two periods of occupation, Period I: Neolithic-Chalcolithic and Period II: An overlapping period between Neolithic-Chalcolithic and early Iron Age. Period...

the Slab Grave culture are closely linked to the westward expansion of Neolithic Amur ancestry associated with Ancient Northeast Asians. The genetic profiles...

spread into Europe, Di Giacomo et al. points to events which post-date the Neolithic, in particular the demographic floruit associated with the rise of the...

archaeologists like Mortimer Wheeler, newer periodisations include the Neolithic early farming settlements, and use a stage–phase model, often combining...

barrows in Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire. Dating from the early to middle Neolithic periods, they are the burial places of early farming communities. The...

Ba'ja (Arabic: بعجة) is a Neolithic village 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) north of Petra, Jordan. Like the nearby site of Basta, the settlement was built in...

1975) was a British archaeologist who specialised in the study of the Neolithic British Isles and the Celts. Thomas George Eyre Powell was born in 1916...

a Neolithic clay figurine found in the area of Karditsa in Thessaly, Greece. This unique artifact, dated around 3900 BCE, during the Final Neolithic period...

excessively rare, barely three parts per thousand, whereas in the ancient Neolithic with pottery and polished stone, small pieces of flint with geometric...

study performed on the tree-rings of wooden building remains from the Neolithic waterlogged site of Dispilio in north-western Greece, identified the Miyake...

M. R. (1993). Interpreting the axe trade: production and exchange in Neolithic Britain. New studies in archaeology. Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge...

are associated with the Neolithic Revolution, also known as the First Agricultural Revolution, which occurred during the Neolithic or Stone Age. These societies...

development of human technology between the Palaeolithic and Neolithic periods. Neolithic – a period of primitive technological and social development...

evolved in the Caucasus or Iran. The clade spread from there during the Neolithic, primarily into North Africa, the Horn of Africa, the Socotra Archipelago...

mound called a tumulus, a long barrow form of dolmen, dating from the Neolithic period around 3750–3650 BCE. It is near Antequera, Málaga, Spain. It is...

of present-day Poland is divided into the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic eras. The Paleolithic extended from about 500,000 BCE to 8000 BCE. The...

used of these cultures based on geological criteria is problematic. The Neolithic sites of Britain are amongst the most varied in the prehistory of Europe...

the surface bearing England's largest and most complex assemblage of Neolithic rock carvings. These carvings remained unrecognised until their rediscovery...

(until 10,000 BCE), invention of pottery and signs of Mesolithic (possibly Neolithic) civilisation by the Proto-Ainu. United States: Probable presence of humans...

In the Massacre of Schletz, more than 200 Neolithic people were killed by blunt force around 5000 BC, towards the end of the Linear Pottery culture epoch...

2703°E / 36.263; 114.2703 The Xiaqiyuan culture (1800–1500 BC) was a late Neolithic culture on the eastern side of the Taihang Mountains. Unlike the contemporaneous...

earliest form of permanent structure in many cultures. Types include the Neolithic long house of Europe, the Norman Medieval Longhouses that evolved in Western...

Kebaran (Upper Paleolithic), Natufian (Epipaleolithic) and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and B (PPNA, PPNB) industries were found. Wheat was recovered from the...

Valley. The Gigantolithic or Heavy Neolithic flint tool industry of this culture was recognized as a particular Neolithic variant of the Lebanese highlands...

Siberia. In 2018, the emergence and spread of the pathogen during the Neolithic decline (as far back as 6,000 years ago) was published. A site in Sweden...

County, Albania, where archeological artifacts, dating from the Early Neolithic age, have been found. The site is part of the Cakran-Dunavec culture....

millennium BC in written history, and possibly as far back as the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (8800–6500 BCE) based on archaeological evidence. For millennia, the...

Look up henge or へんげ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Henges are neolithic earthworks. Henge may also refer to: Henge (film) (Japanese: へんげ, romanized: Henge...

 › The Yangshao culture (Chinese: 仰韶文化; pinyin: Yǎngsháo wénhuà) was a Neolithic culture that existed extensively along the middle reaches of the Yellow...

population of 584 inhabitants. In the locality of Jasenje, the remains of Neolithic site were explored in 1967 by Jovan Todorović, a curator of the Belgrade...

inside a wall support a projecting wall or parapet, has been used since Neolithic (New Stone Age) times. It is common in medieval architecture and in the...

Wisconsin Fargo Plantation, a location south of Stonehenge that includes a Neolithic/Bronze Age henge and barrow cemetery Fargo (1952 film), an American western...

existed between 10,000 and 8,000 years ago in the Sahara, during the Neolithic Subpluvial. Human remains from this culture were found in 2000 at a site...

with pottery from Neolithic communities. Radiocarbon dating suggests that the famous stone circle was built later in the Neolithic period, replacing or...

spread throughout much of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, over a period between 3,300 and 900 BCE. The purpose...

Mesopotamia, the area of Ras al-Ayn has been inhabited since at least the Neolithic age (c. 8,000 BC). Later known as the ancient Aramean city of Sikkan,...

Çayönü Tepesi is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic B settlement in southeastern Turkey which prospered from circa 8,630 to 6,800 BC. It is located in Diyarbakır...

Gadachrili Gora (Georgian: გადაჭრილი გორა) is a Neolithic archaeological site located near the village of Imiri in the Marneuli Municipality of Kvemo...

Auvernier - La Saunerie is a Neolithic lakeside settlement located in the former municipalities of Auvernier and Colombier, now part of Milvignes in the...