The most representative site explored up to now is Knossos ( see Crete ) which has yielded not only the most various but the most continuous evidence from the Neolithic age to the twilight of classical civilization.

Euan MacKie has supported Thom's analysis, to which he added an archaeological context by comparing Neolithic Britain to the Mayan civilization to argue for a stratified society in this period.

Chinese civilization originated in various regional centers along both the Yellow River and the Yangtze River valleys in the Neolithic era, but the Yellow River is said to be the cradle of Chinese civilization.

Along with the excavations of settlements such as Skara Brae, Links of Noltland, Barnhouse, Rinyo and Balfarg and the complex site at Ness of Brodgar these cairns provide important clues as to what civilization in Scotland was like in the Neolithic.

In Neolithic times, daggers were made of materials such as flint, ivory or bone and were used as weapons since the earliest periods of human civilization.

Neolithic civilization ( marked by animal domestication and subsistence agriculture ) developed in the Saharan and Mediterranean Maghrib between 6000 and 2000 BC.

However, the first real evidence of civilization is from the Neolithic or 5th millennium BC when houses began to appear.

The area, stretching from the Dnieper River in the east to the Iron Gate of the Danube in the west ( which included the land now in Moldova ), had a civilization as highly advanced as anywhere else on Earth during the Neolithic period.

Although the characteristics and manifestations of civilization from the Neolithic have been identified their origins and relationship have not yet fully defined.

During the Neolithic Ozieri civilization in Sardinia, ceramic ladles and spoons were already in use.

The museum exhibits include tapestries from the sixteenth century given by Robert de Lenoncourt ( who died in 1532 ), marble capitals from the fourth century AD, furniture, jewellery, pottery, weapons and glasswork from the 6th to 8th century, medieval sculpture, the façade of the 13th-century Musicians ' House, remnants from an earlier abbey building, and also exhibits of Gallo-Roman arts and crafts and a room of pottery, jewellery, and weapons from Gallic civilization, as well as an exhibit of items from the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic periods.

There is also archeological evidence of date cultivation in Mehrgarh around 7000 BCE, a Neolithic civilization in western Pakistan.

Neolithic civilization ( marked by animal domestication and subsistence agriculture ) developed in the Saharan and Mediterranean North Africa after the Levante between 6000 and 2000 BCE.

The town was a Neolithic settlement and an important Etruscan center ( Velathri or Felathri in Etruscan, Velàthre, Βελάθρη in Greek ) with an original civilization ; it became a municipium in the Roman Age.

Scholars have defined civilization as based on agriculture and urban settlements, and as such is a consequence of the Neolithic Revolution.

The Neolithic Revolution, including the beginning of civilization, with domestication of farm animals including pigs, goats and bees.

She analyzes the androcracy ( governance of social organization dominated by males ) of Indo-European and other societies, versus what she proposes was a partnership model ( as distinct from matriarchy ) for the social organization of Neolithic Europe and the later Minoan civilization that flourished in prehistoric Neolithic Crete.

In the Kerio Valley of Kenya, among other neighboring areas, there are vestiges of the Neolithic tillers ' civilization in the form of elaborate irrigation systems.

) substantially preserved traditions from an earlier phase of civilization, stretching back even to the Neolithic, and never overwhelmed ( as eastward, in Java ) by aristocratic Hindu-Buddhist ideas.

Archeological evidence indicates the island was within the mainstream of Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Cycladic civilization.

Recent archaeological discoveries have revealed that there was a civilization in the village even in the middle Neolithic era.

* The dig of Khant: the Khanty creek, located in the north near Kayar in the lower valley of the Senegal River, gave its name to a Neolithic industry which mainly uses bone and wood.

* The dig the Faleme located in the south-east of Senegal, has uncovered a Neolithic Falemian tools industry that produced polished materials as diverse as sandstone, hematite, shale, quartz, and flint.

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.

In late Neolithic times, the Yellow River valley began to establish itself as a center of Yangshao culture ( 5000 BC to 3000 BC ), and the first villages were founded ; the most archaeologically significant of these was found at Banpo, Xi ' an.

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.

Nearby Neolithic standing stones and circles followed the introduction of farming from about 4000 BC, and a remarkably well preserved Bronze age log boat dated to around 1000 BC was found in the mudflats of the River Tay at Carpow to the east of Perth.

The Liangzhu culture was the last Neolithic Jade culture in the Yangtze River delta and was spaced over a period of about 1, 300 years.

The Brú na Bóinne complex of Neolithic chamber tombs lies on the River Boyne down river from the village.

During Neolithic times, the key known sources of nephrite jade in China for utilitarian and ceremonial jade items were the now depleted deposits in the Ningshao area in the Yangtze River Delta ( Liangzhu culture 3400 – 2250 BC ) and in an area of the Liaoning province and Inner Mongolia ( Hongshan culture 4700 – 2200 BC ).

Subsistence grain-growing agriculture ( predominantly wheat and barley ) first emerged during the Neolithic Revolution when humans began to settle in the Nile, Euphrates, and Indus River Valleys.

The oldest evidence of humans on the territory of Moscow dates from the Neolithic ( Schukinskaya site on the Moscow River ).

During the prehistoric Neolithic Era, the Dniester River was the centre of one of the most advanced civilizations on earth at the time.

Southworth identifies late Proto-Dravidian with the Southern Neolithic culture in the lower Godavari River basin of South Central India, which first appeared ca.

Population genetic evidence, favors an origin for Proto-Sino-Tibetan languages in the upper and middle Yellow River basin, with part of that source population branching off to settle in the Himalayas, with the split of the population that would provide the genesis of the Chinese language from the population that would provide the genesis of the larger Sino-Tibetan language family in the East Asian Neolithic era:

One of the earliest Neolithic cultures of China in the upper to middle Yellow River basin was the Peiligang culture of 7000 BCE to 5000 BCE, so the population genetic reference in the quoted material is to a date on or after this time period.

The Neolithic era concluded in the Yellow River around 1500 BCE.

Evidence of the early use of rammed earth has been seen in Neolithic archaeological sites of the Yangshao and Longshan cultures along the Yellow River in China, dating back to 5000 BCE.

The Liangzhu culture () ( 3400-2250 BC ) was the last Neolithic jade culture in the Yangtze River Delta of China.

The River Trent was undoubtedly the first means of travel along the Trent Valley and has probably seen traffic since the Mesolithic or Neolithic periods, whereas the A513 Road has possibly been in existence only since the early Medieval period.

By far the most interesting New-Stone-Age site in the entire Cannock Chase area lies opposite Handsacre on the north bank of the River Trent in Mavesyn Ridware ( SK 085168 ), where a Neolithic Causewayed Enclosure has been recorded on aerial photographs.

The Heavy Neolithic Qaraoun culture has been identified at around fifty sites in Lebanon around the source springs of the River Jordan, however the dating of the culture has never been reliably determined.