Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "History of Scotland" ¶ 7
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Neolithic and farming
The Neolithic period saw extensive deforestation for farming land.
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.
The New Stone Age, or Neolithic, begins with the introduction of farming, ultimately from the Middle East, around 4000 BCE.
The emergence of complex and organized religions can be traced to the period when humans abandoned their nomadic hunter gatherer lifestyles in order to begin farming during the Neolithic period.
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.
In North-Eastern Europe, Siberia and certain southern European and North African sites, a " ceramic Mesolithic " can be distinguished between 7000-3850 BCE, Russian archaeologists prefer to describe such pottery-making cultures as Neolithic, even though farming is absent.
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.
Early Neolithic farming was limited to a narrow range of plants, both wild and domesticated, which included einkorn wheat, millet and spelt, and the keeping of dogs, sheep and goats.
Not all of these cultural elements characteristic of the Neolithic appeared everywhere in the same order: the earliest farming societies in the Near East did not use pottery.
The major advance of Neolithic 1 was true farming.
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.
* agriculture and cereal cultivation, including technology commonly ascribed to late Neolithic farming communities, e. g., the plow (* h < sub > 2 </ sub > erh < sub > 3 </ sub > trom )
" This millet has been reportedly found in Neolithic sites in Georgia ( dated to the fifth and fourth millennia BC ), as well as excavated Yangshao culture farming villages east in China.
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 ).
These first Neolithic people probably arrived from Sicily ( about 100 kilometres / 60 miles north ), and were mainly farming and fishing communities, with some evidence of hunting activities.
The earliest Neolithic farming technology of northern Europe, the so-called LBK culture, reached the east of Belgium at its furthest northwesterly stretch from its origins in southeast Europe.
With the dawn of the Neolithic and the proliferation of agriculture, new psychoactives came into use as a natural by-product of farming.
The earliest farming communities are now believed to date from about 4000 BC, marking the beginning of the Neolithic period.
Canaanite culture apparently developed in situ from the Circum-Arabian Nomadic Pastoral Complex, which in turn developed from a fusion of Near Eastern Harifian hunter gatherers with Pre-Pottery Neolithic B ( PPNB ) farming cultures, practicing animal domestication, during the 6200 BC climatic crisis.
Nearby Neolithic standing stones and circles also exist, dating from about 4000 BC, following the introduction of farming in the area.
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.
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.

Neolithic and brought
The Neolithic revolution brought agriculture, which made denser human populations possible, thereby supporting city development.
It is generally accepted that the Korean megalithic culture emerged from the late Neolithic age, which brought agriculture to the peninsula, and existed throughout the Bronze Age.
The Capsian culture brought Morocco into the Neolithic about 2001 BC, at a time when the Maghreb was less arid than it is today.
Epirus has been occupied since at least Neolithic times by seafarers along the coast and by hunters and shepherds in the interior who brought with them the Greek language.
In Schaarsbergen, 12 grave mounds were found from 2400 BC, which brought the so-called Neolithic revolution to the area of Arnhem, i. e. the rise of the farmers.
Neolithic farming brought permanent settlements.
Such Neolithic tombs are common across much of western Europe, from Iberia to Scandinavia, and they were therefore likely brought to the British Isles along with, or roughly concurrent to, the introduction of farming.
The sheep now living on the island are Faroes sheep, but until the mid-nineteenth century it was occupied by feral sheep, probably derived from the earliest sheep brought to Northern Europe in the Neolithic Period.
The section about man summed up the evidence for human antiquity that had been brought to light by British geologists in 1858-59, and integrated it with archaeological evidence from the Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age.
As elsewhere in Central Europe, Poland's Stone Age cultures passed through stages known as the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic, each of which brought refinements in stone-tool-making techniques.
DNA evidence from sub-fossil remains of teeth and jawbones of Neolithic pigs shows that the first domestic pigs in Europe had been brought from the Near East.
However the rapid spread of Neolithic culture up the western seaways brought early farming settlements and Megalithic culture.

Neolithic and permanent
It was first farmed during the Neolithic period and permanent habitation appeared at the beginning of the Bronze Age.
The earliest local signs of permanent habitation are at the Neolithic site of Pulo, one of the most important such sites in southern Italy.
The first pies appeared around 9500 BC, in the Egyptian Neolithic period or New Stone Age, when the use of stone tools shaped by polishing or grinding became common, the domestication of plants and animals, the establishment of permanent villages, and the practice of crafts such as pottery and weaving.
Through archaeological finds made in what is now the city of Esslingen there is evidence of permanent settlement since the Neolithic Stone Age.
5, 000-year-old evidence of permanent agricultural settlements around Speyer shows that these advantages did not escape the attention of Neolithic, Bronze Age, Hallstatt culture and La Tène culture peoples.
The first known permanent settlements on the town's territory ( Linear Ceramics Culture ) was in Neolithic.
Jarmo appears to be two older, permanent Neolithic settlements and, approximately, contemporary with Jericho or the Neolithic stage of Shanidar.
The Neolithic Revolution involved radical changes in agricultural technology which included development of agriculture, animal domestication, and the adoption of permanent settlements.
Gavdos has supported a permanent population since Neolithic times.
In Szandaszőlős, a suburb of Szolnok, a permanent Neolithic era settlement was discovered.
Stone Age remains has been found showing more permanent habitation during the Neolithic period, and by the Iron Age the area is known to have been occupied by the Celtic Cornovii tribe.
More permanent occupation of Cheshire occurred during the New Stone Age ( Neolithic ).
The fact that a single Neolithic leaf-shaped arrowhead is the only pre-Bronze Age finding on Caburn, despite the extent and duration of excavations, suggests that there was little permanent occupation then.
postulated that a standing stone at Gardom's Edge could be a gnomon of a seasonal sundial ( indicating the change of season, as through the winter half of the year its north facing side is in permanent shadow ) possibly dated to during the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age period ( 2500 – 1500 BC ).

0.908 seconds.