During the Neolithic Revolution, which occurred during the early Holocene, there were at least two aurochs domestication events: one related to the Indian subspecies, leading to Zebu cattle ; the other one related to the Eurasian subspecies, leading to taurine cattle.

Agriculture has been theorized to have become the dominant way of producing food since the Neolithic Revolution.

Mesopotamia is the site of the earliest developments of the Neolithic Revolution from around 10, 000 BC.

Around 5 thousand years ago in the process of Neolithic Revolution appeared animal husbandry and agriculture, which formed the Atbasar, Kelteminar, Botai, Mokanjar, Ust-Narym, and other archeological cultures.

In the course of the Neolithic Revolution.

The Neolithic followed the terminal Holocene Epipaleolithic period, beginning with the rise of farming, which produced the " Neolithic Revolution ", and ending when metal tools became widespread in the Copper Age ( chalcolithic ) or Bronze Age or developing directly into the Iron Age, depending on the geographical region.

Bomhard ( 2008 ) suggests a differentiation of Proto-Nostratic by 8, 000 BCE, the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution in the Levant, over a territory spanning the entire Fertile Crescent and beyond into the Caucasus ( Proto-Kartvelian ), Egypt and along the Red Sea to the Horn of Africa ( Proto-Afroasiatic ), the Iranian Plateau ( Proto-Elamo-Dravidian ) and into Central Asia ( Proto-Eurasiatic, to be further subdivided by 5, 000 BCE into Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic and Proto-Altaic ).

Due to these factors, the practice of slavery would have only proliferated after the invention of agriculture during the Neolithic Revolution about 11, 000 years ago.

** British Agricultural Revolution / Neolithic Revolution

* 12, 000 BC – Neolithic Revolution, the first agricultural revolution, begins in the ancient Near East

Childe is also remembered for his emphasis on revolutionary developments on human society, such as the Neolithic Revolution and the Urban Revolution, in this manner being influenced by Marxist ideas of societal development.

These included the Neolithic Revolution, when hunter-gatherers began settling down in permanent communities and began farming, through to the Urban Revolution, when society progressed from a series of small towns through to the first cities, and right up to more recent times, when the Industrial Revolution drastically changed the nature of production.

Such concepts as the " Neolithic Revolution " and " Urban Revolution " did not begin with him but he welded them into a new synthesis of economic periods based on what could be known from the artifacts, rather than from a supposed ethnology of an unknown past.

The construction of cities was the end product of trends which began in the Neolithic Revolution.

Modern examples of tribal genocide rarely reflect the defining characteristics of tribes existing prior to the Neolithic Revolution -- for example, small population and close-relatedness.

* The Neolithic Revolution ( around 10, 000 BP ), the initial transition from hunting and gathering to settled agriculture in prehistory

" According to Marx, this began with the phase of primitive communism ( hunter-gatherer society ), after which the Neolithic Revolution gave way to slave societies, progressing into the feudal society, and then into his present era of the Industrial Revolution, after which he held that the next step was for the proletariat to overthrow the owners of industry and establish a socialist society, which would further develop into a communist society, in which class distinctions, money, and the state would have withered from existence entirely.

It is believed that at the end of the Neolithic Period ( around 4000 BC ), Achill had a population of 500 – 1, 000 people.

Occupation of the site at Delphi can be traced back to the Neolithic period with extensive occupation and use beginning in the Mycenaean period ( 1600 – 1100 BC ).

Widespread decrease in elm pollen across Europe between 8400 – 8300 BC and 7200 – 7000 BC, starting in southern Europe and gradually moving north to Great Britain, may represent land clearing by fire at the onset of Neolithic agriculture.

* Ubaid period: 5300 – 4100 BC ( Pottery Neolithic to Chalcolithic )

Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon, DBE ( 5 January 1906 – 24 August 1978 ), was a leading archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent.

* Çatalhöyük – A Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement, located near the modern city of Konya, Turkey.

The question as to why this area did not remain at the forefront of technological and social development lies in the subsequent history of its geographical location – at the end of the mostly peaceful Neolithic period, this area became a highway for invaders from the east moving into Europe.

** Pre-Pottery Neolithic A ( 10, 000 – 8700 BC )

** Pre-Pottery Neolithic B ( 8700 – 6800 )

Mehrgarh Period I 7000 BCE – 5500 BCE, was Neolithic and aceramic ( i. e., without the use of pottery ).

Mehrgarh Period II 5500 BCE – 4800 BCE and Merhgarh Period III 4800 BCE – 3500 BCE were ceramic Neolithic ( i. e., pottery was now in use ) and later chalcolithic.

The Kebarans in their turn were directly ancestral to the succeeding Natufian culture ( 10, 500 – 8500 BCE ), which has enormous significance for prehistorians as the clearest evidence of hunters and gatherers in actual transition to Neolithic food production.

Mehrgarh, ( 7000 – 5500 BCE ), on the Kachi Plain of Balochistan, is an important Neolithic site discovered in 1974, with early evidence of farming and herding, and dentistry.

Despite being contemporary with true Neolithic henges and stone circles, Stonehenge is in many ways atypical – for example, at over tall, its extant trilithons supporting lintels held in place with mortise and tenon joints, make it unique.

* c. 3100 – 2600 BC — Neolithic settlement at Skara Brae in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, is inhabited.

* 5000 – 4500 BC: Għar Dalam phase of Neolithic farmers on Malta, possibly immigrant farmers from the Agrigento region of Sicilythumb

* 5000 – 2000 BC: Neolithic period in China

* c. 8000 BC — 7000 BC — Paleolithic – Neolithic overlap ( Mesolithic ).

The rammed earth construction of these walls was an inherited tradition, since much older fortifications of this type have been found at Chinese Neolithic sites of the Longshan culture ( c. 3000 – 2000 BC ).

It has been suggested that the drawings record a story, most probably dating to the early centuries BC, from some center in the area of the Ganges – Yamuna plain into the territory of still Neolithic hunting tribes.

Nine subfossil F. carica figs dated to about 9400 – 9200 BC were found in the early Neolithic village Gilgal I ( in the Jordan Valley, 13 km north of Jericho ).

Worldwide, the Bronze Age generally followed the Neolithic period, but in some parts of the world, a Copper Age served as a transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.

The Copper Age was originally defined as a transition between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age.

By the time of Vere Gordon Childe's work, The Dawn of Europe ( 1947 ), which affirms the Mesolithic, sufficient data had been collected to determine that the Mesolithic was in fact necessary and was indeed a transition and intermediary between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic.

The transition from Neolithic times to the Iron Age apparently was achieved without intermediate bronze production.

The transition to the Neolithic era in Central Europe featured the development of agriculture and the clearing of pastures, the first smelting of metals at the local level, the " Retz " style pottery and also fluted pottery.

The 19th and early 20th century innovators of the modern three-age system recognized the problem of the initial transition, the " gap " between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic.

During the transition to the Neolithic age, agriculture and cattle breeding became the core activities of a growing number of human communities.

The resulting determinations have been analysed using the Bayesian statistic OxCal 4. 0, and the results reveal that the initial settlement of Ban Chiang took place by Neolithic rice farmers in about 1500 BC, with the transition to the Bronze Age in about 1000 BC.

The transition into the subsequent Neolithic period is chiefly defined by the unprecedented development of nascent agricultural practices.

An Epipaleolithic ( latest Paleolithic ) period, also known as Mesolithic ( transition to Neolithic ) follows and is, in turn succeeded by a Neolithic ( New Stone Age ).

Some archaeologists have pointed to evidence that there was a significant amount of continuity of prehistoric economic, architectural, and social structures, suggesting that the transition between the Neolithic, Helladic and early Greek cultures may have continued without major rifts in social texture.

In the British mid to late Neolithic and early Bronze Age, oval barrows may indicate a transition between earlier long barrows with multiple burials and the later, more individual round barrows.

In other parishes there have also been discoveries of implements and mounds dating back to the Bronze Age and Neolithic periods indicating a period of transition between forging and sedimentary civilizations.

As the Kushavati transitioned into a Neolithic society, they began the domestication of animals and were in the last phase of using stone tools – the entire realm of shamanism underwent a radical transition.

Although primarily farmers, the inhabitants of Los Millares had crucially also learned metal working, especially the smelting and forming of copper, and the site is considered highly important in understanding the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.

This was a transition period in the development of human technology between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic.

Phases IB, IIA and IIB ( 9, 700 – 9, 300 BC ) make up the Khiamian, a poorly understood and sometimes disputed sub-phase straddling the transition from the Natufian to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A ( PPNA ).

The transition from the earlier hunter-gatherer societies to the agrarian and agricultural societies is also known as the Neolithic Revolution.

This coincides with the transition from the Mesolithic era to the Neolithic era ( respectively, the Middle and Late Stone Age ).

In France from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age, one finds a variety of archaeological cultures, including the Rössen culture of c. 4500 — 4000 BC, Beaker culture of c. 2800 – 1900 BC, Tumulus culture of c. 1600-1200 BC, Urnfield culture of c. 1300-800 BC, and, in a transition to the Iron Age, Hallstatt culture of c. 1200-500 BC.