A chambered cairn is a burial monument, usually constructed during the Neolithic, consisting of a cairn of stones inside which a sizeable ( usually stone ) chamber was constructed.

During the early Neolithic ( 4000-3300 BC ) architectural forms are highly regionalised with timber and earth monuments predominating in the east and stone chambered cairns in the west.

Neolithic farming brought permanent settlements, and the wonderfully well-preserved stone house at Knap of Howar on Papa Westray dating from 3500 BC predates by about 500 years the village of similar houses at Skara Brae on West Mainland, Orkney.

The Mesolithic ( Greek: mesos " middle ", lithos " stone ") is an archaeological concept used to refer to specific groups of archaeological cultures defined as falling between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic.

The Paleolithic had utilized Modes I-IV and the Neolithic mainly abandoned the modes in favor of polished, not chipped, stone tools.

As the " Neolithic package " ( including farming, herding, polished stone axes, timber longhouses and pottery ) spread into Europe, the Mesolithic way of life was marginalized and eventually disappeared.

Microliths were also used from the Neolithic on arrows, although a decline in this use coincided with the appearance of bifacial or " leafed " arrowheads that became widespread in the Calcolithic period, or Copper Age ( that is, stone arrowheads were increasingly made by a different technique during this later period ).

Neolithic stone implements are by definition polished and, except for specialty items, not chipped.

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.

The term Neolithic derives from the Greek νεολιθικός, neolithikos, from νέος neos, " new " + λίθος lithos, " stone ", literally meaning " New Stone Age.

Cultivation of opium poppies for food, anaesthesia, and ritual purposes dates back to at least the Neolithic Age ( new stone age ).

At the time of the pre-pottery Neolithic people used vessels made of stone, gypsum and burnt lime ( Vaiselles blanches ).

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.

Due to the practice, dating to at least the early Neolithic, of building in stone on virtually treeless islands, Shetland is extremely rich in physical remains of the prehistoric eras and there are over 5, 000 archaeological sites all told.

During this entire time stone remained in use in parallel with the metals for some objects, including those also used in the Neolithic, such as stone pottery.

* Megalithic tombs, multichambered, and dolmens, single-chambered, were graves with a huge stone slab stacked over other similarly large stone slabs ; they have been discovered all across Europe and Asia and were built in the Neolithic and the Bronze Age.

The Ridgeway passes near many Neolithic, Iron Age, and Bronze Age sites including Avebury Circle, a stone circle similar to Stonehenge ; Barbury Castle, Liddington Castle, Uffington Castle, Segsbury Castle, Pulpit Hill and Ivinghoe Beacon Hill, all Iron Age and Bronze Age hill forts ; Wayland's Smithy, a Neolithic chieftain burial tomb ; the Uffington White Horse, an ancient chalk horse carved into the hillside near Uffington Castle ; and Grim's Ditch, a section of earthwork near Mongewell created by Iron Age peoples as a possible demarcation line.

" Other stone formations include " Ulysses ' Bow " ( a natural arch ) and the " Grotta del Papa " ( a cave accessible by sea and boasting Neolithic cave paintings ).

The beginning of the Late Neolithic Period about 2200 BC is characterized by the appearance of the Corded Ware culture, pottery with corded decoration and well-polished stone axes ( s. c. boat-shape axes ).

A range of unique stone furniture has been excavated in Skara Brae, a Neolithic village located in Orkney.

The stone dresser was regarded as the most important as it symbolically faces the entrance in each house and is therefore the first item seen when entering, perhaps displaying symbolic objects, including decorative artwork such as several Neolithic Carved Stone Balls also found at the site.

Archaeological evidence points to an abrupt change to the Neolithic era around 6, 000 years ago, with the advent of agriculture, domestic animals, polished stone adzes and pottery.

An array of Neolithic artifacts, including bracelets, axe heads, chisels, and polishing tools.

An array of Neolithic artifacts, including bracelets, axe heads, chisels, and polishing tools.

An array of Neolithic artifacts, including bracelet s, Axe | axe heads, chisel s, and polishing tools.

Neolithic flint axe, about 31 cm long

Tievebulliagh mountain near Cushendall features a Neolithic stone axe factory, and a similar one is to be found in the townland of Brockley on Rathlin Island, and features the same porcellanite stone.

An array of Neolithic artifacts, including bracelets, axe heads, chisels, and polishing tools.

Such axe heads were needed in large numbers for forest clearance and the establishment of settlements and farmsteads, a characteristic of the Neolithic period.

The Mole Gap and North Downs do not appear to have been settled until the late Stone Age: A large axe, typical of a " rough-out " axe produced during the Neolithic period, which was discovered in 1952 during building work in Westhumble, A Flint Mine of the same period has been discovered at East Horsley along with neolithic flakes of flint at Fetcham and Headley Heath.

The earliest signs of human activity in Leigh are evidenced by a Neolithic stone axe found in Pennington and a bronze spearhead from south of Gas Street.

A small polished stone axe was found in the area of the Neolithic pit concentration.

In 1956 several Neolithic stone axe heads were found in the town.

The Langdale axe industry is the name given by archaeologists to the centre of a specialised stone tool manufacturing at Great Langdale in England's Lake District during the Neolithic period ( beginning about 9500 BC in some parts of the Middle East, and later in other parts of the world ).

An array of Neolithic artifacts, including bracelets, axe heads, chisels, and polishing tools

Neolithic human activity in Milnrow is evidenced with an ancient stone axe found at Hollingworth.

A Neolithic stone axe was retrieved from the River Stour ; a polished flint axe in a gravel pit to the east and a flint head in a meadow just off the Ashen Road.

In Europe votive deposits date to the Neolithic, with polished axe hoards, reaching a peak in the late Bronze Age.

He tells Jan that he has donated the axe head to a museum, as it was a valuable Neolithic artifact.

Neolithic rituals began about 3500 BC with signs of small hearths, and precious objects left on the hill, presumably as offerings, including fine pottery bowls and stone axe heads imported from Cumbria and Wales.

A stone axe dating from the Neolithic age ( 3500-2100BC ) was found on Kentmere Avenue.

Polished Neolithic jadeitite axe from the: fr: Muséum de Toulouse | Museum of Toulouse

Over 100 axe heads made from jadeitite quarried in northern Italy in the Neolithic era have been found across the British Isles.

A Neolithic polished flint axe was found in the stream near the present school in Headcorn, and a bronze palstave axehead dating from the Bronze Age reveal the presence of people in the area from early times.