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

* Neolithic Revolution – wide-scale transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to agriculture and settlement.

* 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.

" 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.

Of particular interest and national importance are the Neolithic flint mines at Arnhofen, where, around 7, 000 years ago, Stone Age people made flint, which was fashioned into drills, blades and arrowheads, and was regarded as the steel of the Stone Age.

Dating back to the Neolithic Age, the first bronze drums, called the Dong Son drums, have been uncovered in and around the Red River Delta regions of Vietnam and Southern China.

Further archaeological evidence indicates that other parts of the region now called Cambodia were inhabited from around 1000-2000 BCE by a Neolithic culture.

The New Stone Age, or Neolithic, begins with the introduction of farming, ultimately from the Middle East, around 4000 BCE.

Prehistoric Scotland entered the Neolithic about 4000 BC, the Bronze Age about 2000 BC, and the Iron Age around 700 BC.

Dating back to the Neolithic Age, the first bronze drums, called the Dong Son drums have been uncovered in and around the Red River Delta regions of Vietnam and Southern China.

When Hodder Westropp introduced the Mesolithic in 1866 as a technology intermediate between Paleolithic and Neolithic, a storm of controversy immediately arose around it.

The Neolithic 2 ( PPNB ) began around 8800 cal.

The Neolithic 3 ( PN ) began around 6400 cal.

Through a combination of cultural diffusion and migration of peoples, the Neolithic traditions spread west and northwards to reach northwestern Europe by around 4500 BC.

It is unique in northern Europe, bearing similarity to Neolithic or Bronze Age tombs around the Mediterranean.

Use of obsidian in pottery of the Neolithic in the area around Lipari was found to be significantly less at a distance representing two weeks journeying.

It is certain that slings were known to Neolithic peoples around the Mediterranean, but it seems likely that the sling is much older.

Settlements of the Neolithic and Bronze Age were found around Lake Zurich.

The western zone around the Jordan and upper 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 BC ( and includes sites such as Jericho ).

After Margaret's death Arthur wandered aimlessly around Liguria ostensibly looking at Terramare Culture sites and for Neolithic remains in Ligurian caves.

People have lived in and around what is now Asti since the Neolithic period.

However, continuous habitation by modern humans dates from the period after the end of the last ice age around 9000 BC, and Wales has many remains from the Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age.

The earliest known Korean pottery dates to around 8000 BCE, and the Neolithic period began after 6000 BCE, followed by the Bronze Age by 800 BCE, and the Iron Age around 400 BCE.

Together they illustrate every aspect of the cultures of the Nile Valley ( including Nubia ), from the Predynastic Neolithic period ( c. 10, 000 BC ) through to the Coptic ( Christian ) times ( 12th century AD ), a time-span over 11, 000 years.

The Neolithic age in China can be traced back to between 12, 000 and 10, 000 BC.

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

The Neolithic Age, Era, or Period, νέος ( nèos, " new ") and λίθος ( lithos, " stone "): or New Stone era, was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10, 200 cal.

An early temple area in southeastern Turkey at Göbekli Tepe dated to 10, 000 BCE may be regarded as the beginning of the Neolithic 1.

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.

The first known vessels date back to the Neolithic Period, about 10, 000 years ago, but could not be described as ships.

Since approximately 10, 000 BC Syria was one of the centers of Neolithic culture ( PPNA ), where agriculture and cattle breeding appeared for the first time in the world.

Around 10, 000 BC, with the dawn of the Neolithic age and the spread of agriculture, grains became the mainstay of making bread.

However, the presence of old weapon and tool fragments ( specifically, polished axes cut through shale and remnants of cooking and fishing ) in the country has been interpreted as a possible indication of a large human presence during the Upper Paleolithic period ( 15, 000 to 10, 000 BC ), or at the minimum, the Neolithic period.

* Neolithic 10, 000-3000 BC

* Neolithic architecture 10, 000-3000 BC

The 8 metres of the Neolithic is then equivalent 5100 years, except that Evans takes off 10 % to allow for a possible increased deposition rate of mud materials.

Grains of wild emmer discovered at Ohalo II had a radiocarbon dating of 17, 000 BC, and at the Pre Pottery Neolithic A ( PPNA ) site of Netiv Hagdud are 10, 000-9, 400 years old.

The earliest known evidence of a human presence in what is now Oldham is attested by the discovery of Neolithic flint arrow-heads and workings found at Werneth and Besom Hill, implying habitation 7 – 10, 000 years ago.

Other examples may date as late as the Early Bronze Age, but the well known prolific and sophisticated Magdalenian style seen at Lascaux in France ( c. 15, 000 BCE ) and Altamira in Spain died out about 10, 000 BCE, coinciding with the advent of the Neolithic period.

Diverse images of what are believed to be Mother Goddesses have been discovered that also date from the Neolithic period, the New Stone Age, which ranges from approximately 10, 000 BCE, when the use of wild cereals led to the beginning of farming and, eventually, to agriculture.

It remained the only mode of subsistence until the end of the Mesolithic period some 10, 000 years ago, and after this was replaced only gradually with the spread of the Neolithic Revolution.

With the advent of agriculture and the beginning of animal domestication roughly 10, 000 years ago, during the Neolithic Revolution, humans started consuming large amounts of dairy products, beans, cereals, alcohol and salt.

However, the first major turning point in zoological knowledge came with the Neolithic Revolution about 10, 000 years ago.

Some petroglyphs are dated to approximately the Neolithic and late Upper Paleolithic boundary, about 10, 000 to 12, 000 years ago, if not earlier ( Kamyana Mohyla ).

However, the first major turning point in biological knowledge came with the Neolithic Revolution about 10, 000 years ago.

The earliest deposits are of a Mesolithic ( circa 10, 000 BC ) hunting camp excavated by Davey in Northbrooks in the 1970s ( Unpublished ) closely followed by the large and unexcavated deposits of Neolithic flint located at Gilden Way.