While the earliest artifacts date to the Middle Neolithic era, there have been documented habitations in Attica from the Early Neolithic ( 6th millennium BC ).

The significant Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Cycladic culture is best known for its schematic flat idols carved out of the islands ' pure white marble centuries before the great Middle Bronze Age (" Minoan ") culture arose in Crete, to the south: these figures have been looted from burials to satisfy a thriving Cycladic antiquities market since the early 20th century.

Crannogs were used as dwellings over five millennia from the European Neolithic Period, to as late as the 17th / early 18th century although in Scotland, convincing evidence for Early and Middle Bronze Age or Norse Period use is not currently present in the archaeological record.

* Barclay, Gordon ( 2005 ) Farmers, Temples and Tombs: Scotland in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age.

In ancient Greece, Tjeered van Andel and co-writers summarized three regional studies of historic erosion and alluviation and found that, wherever adequate evidence exists, a major phase of erosion follows, by about 500-1, 000 years the introduction of farming in the various regions of Greece, ranging from the later Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age.

* Lukacs, J. R., Dental Morphology and Odontometrics of Early Agriculturalists from Neolithic Mehrgarh, Pakistan.

Early development occurred in the Levant ( e. g., Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B ) and from there spread eastwards and westwards.

By then, the dates of the Early Stone Age, or Paleolithic, and Late Stone Age, or Neolithic ( neo = new ), were fairly solid and were regarded by Goodwin as absolute.

The prehistory of the Neolithic, the Bronze Age and the Dark Age ( the Early Iron Age ) at this moment must be treated apart from the stream of Dorian Spartan history.

Broomcorn ( Panicum miliaceum ) and foxtail millet were important crops beginning in the Early Neolithic of China.

The Early Harappan, Mature Harappan, and Late Harappan phases are also called the Regionalisation, Integration, and Localisation eras, respectively, with the Regionalization era reaching back to the Neolithic Mehrgarh II period.

Early forms of art in China are found in the Neolithic Yangshao culture (), which dates back to the 6th millennium BCE.

Whereas he had been required to undertake much fieldwork and excavation whilst at Edinburgh, at the Institute his position as Director meant that this was not necessary, although he did undertake one excavation at Maes Howe, a Neolithic burial tomb plundered by Early Medieaval Norse raiders, during 1954 – 55.

From the pottery fragments Evans distinguishes Early, Middle and Late Neolithic.

In the Early Neolithic, 6000 – 5000, a village of 200-600 persons occupied most of the area of the palace and the slopes to the north and west.

Excavations have revealed settlements in the area dating from the Early Neolithic, possibly Mesolithic periods.

Early Neolithic settlements in Crete include Knossos and Trapeza.

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.

Early settlements in the area around Lake Dian date back to Neolithic times.

The Beaker culture spans both the Late Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age and includes both the distinctive " bell-beaker " type ceramic vessels for which the cultural grouping is known as well as other local styles of pottery from the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age.

Early industry involved fishing and farming.

Early farming village in Mehrgarh, c. 7000 BCE, with houses built with mud brick s. ( Musée Guimet, Paris )

Early sheep farming required few high-standard roads, but the strong increase in dairy farming in the late 19th century created a strong demand for better links on which the more perishable goods could be transported to market or towards ports for export.

Under General Jubal A. Early ’ s command and following Lee ’ s orders, General John B. Gordon was to place Lancaster and the surrounding farming area “ under contribution ” for the Confederate Army ’ s war supplies and to attack Harrisburg from the east side of the river, while another portion of Lee ’ s army advanced from the west side.

Early settlers were attracted to Lick Creek, and then the Salamonie River, because the nearby land had suitable drainage for farming.

Early Southside's primary source of income was farming.

Early industry included logging and farming, but Mattapoisett became best known as a center for shipbuilding and whaling.

Early industry included farming, mining and smelting iron.

In the Early Iron Age ( 6th-12th century ) the population began to grow and people supported themselves on farming, hunting, fishing and livestock.

Early settlers practiced subsistence farming and produced indigo, cotton, naval stores and timber, which were shipped downriver to the port at Georgetown and exported.

Early settlement of the Shaler area was sporadic, with small farming and mercantile villages appearing.

Early industries included farming, sawmills, textile mills, potash production, glassworks, and quarrying.

However, this interpretation is still the most commonly held in academic, archaeological and popular debate, although pollen studies and other evidence have greatly modified the traditional view of the dominance of livestock as opposed to arable farming in early medieval Ireland, making it clear that cereal production was much more important than once thought in the Early Medieval period.

Early farming was extremely labor-intensive and relied heavily on human and horse-power.

Early pioneer farming family history details hardship for those whom first farmed Tokoroa as the soil had serious deficiencies that became known as " bush sickness " later to be found to be cobalt deficiency.

They are sometimes preserved in areas where industrial farming has not been adopted and can date from any time from the Early Bronze Age ( c. 1800 BC ) until the early medieval period.

Early versions of oyster farming occurred between the early 1900s and 1950s.

Early Lochaber axes, like the billhook, served a dual purpose as both building instruments and farming tools.

Early in 1999, Kowalski refused to give unanimous consent for the legislature to discuss a motion addressing the farming crisis in southwestern Manitoba.

Early European use of the ranges was for timber extraction and for farming but low soil fertility limited success.

Early peasant farming villages came into existence in Afghanistan about 7, 000 years ago.

Early inhabitants opted to stay in the town because it was here that they could engage in barter trade with people from different islands, along with other means of livelihood like fishing and farming.