Worldwide, the Bronze Age generally followed the Neolithic period, but in some parts of the world, a Copper Age served as a transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.

Although the Iron Age generally followed the Bronze Age, in some areas, the Iron Age intruded directly on the Neolithic from outside the region except for Sub-Saharan Africa where it was developed independently.

Both are followed by the aceramic Neolithic ( Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B ) and the pottery Neolithic.

This was followed by a wave of Neolithic peoples using the same route and there is some evidence that the Firth of Clyde was a significant route via which mainland Scotland was colonised at this time.

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.

It is not known when the country was first inhabited, but it is thought that humans moved into the area shortly after that ice age, either in the Neolithic period, around ten thousand years ago, or in the long humid period which followed, up to around 3000 BC.

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.

Within a matter of years he had followed this up with a string of further works: The Forest Cultures of Northern Europe: A Study in Evolution and Diffusion ( 1931 ), The Continental Affinities of British Neolithic Pottery ( 1932 ) and Neolithic Settlement in the West of Scotland ( 1934 ).

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deposits are of a Mesolithic ( circa 10, 000 BC ) hunting camp excavated by Davey in Northbrooks in the 1970s ( Unpublished ) closely followed by the large and unexcavated deposits of Neolithic flint located at Gilden Way.

The Neolithic period lasts from 2500 BC to 1000 BC, followed by the Iron Age, characterized by megalithic burials.

This was followed by the King's Men, a stone circle which was constructed in the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age ; unusually, it has parallels to other circles located further north, in the Lake District, implying a trade-based or ritual connection.

Domestication of animals and plants following the Neolithic Revolution through herding and agriculture was seen as the turning point from primitive communism to class society as it was followed by private ownership and slavery, with the inequality that they entailed.

The Late Neolithic Tisza culture is followed by the Eneolithic Tiszapolgár and Bodrogkeresztúr cultures.

It was probably followed by a vacuum of almost 1. 500 years until around 4500 BC when one sees the emergence of Neolithic II ( Ceramic Neolithic ).

The excavators originally divided the site ’ s occupation history into ten periods based on the nature of material finds in the different strata: the oldest, period X, stretches back to the Neolithic period, after which there was fairly continuous occupation until the early Iron Age ( ca 1250-330 BC ), followed by a hiatus before subsequent reoccupation ; occupation finally ends in Iran ’ s medieval period ( Hasanlu period I ).

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.

The two haplogroups most strongly associated with Albanian people ( E-V13 and J2b ) are often considered to have arrived in Europe from the Near East with the Neolithic revolution or late Mesolithic, early in the Holocene epoch.

The areas along the Kalmar Strait have a heritage of Neolithic and Bronze Age habitation ; moreover, Mesolithic peoples crossed the strait on an ice bridge in the early Holocene period as glaciers began to recede from Öland.

The Neolithic founder crops ( or primary domesticates ) are the eight plant species that were domesticated by early Holocene ( Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B ) farming communities in the Fertile Crescent region of southwest Asia, and which formed the basis of systematic agriculture in the Middle East, North Africa, India, Persia and ( later ) Europe.

Laminar microliths are associated with the end of the Upper Paleolithic and the beginning of the Epipaleolithic era ; geometric microliths are characteristic of the Mesolithic and the Neolithic.

While geometric microliths first make their appearance in the Magdalenian, initially as elongated triangles and later as trapezoids ( although the microburin technique is seen from the Perigordian ), they are mostly seen during the Epipaleolithic and the Neolithic.

Allan Bomhard and Colin Renfrew are in broad agreement with the earlier conclusions of Illich-Svitych and Dolgopolsky in seeking the Nostratic Urheimat ( original homeland ) within the Mesolithic ( or Epipaleolithic ) in the Fertile Crescent, the stage which directly preceded the Neolithic and was transitional to it.

The remains of the villages within the tell come from over 4, 000 years of habitation, spanning the Epipaleolithic and Neolithic periods.

* Jericho in the Levant, Neolithic from around 8350 BC, arising from the earlier Epipaleolithic Natufian culture.

An Epipaleolithic ( latest Paleolithic ) period, also known as Mesolithic ( transition to Neolithic ) follows and is, in turn succeeded by a Neolithic ( New Stone Age ).

He dated this industry to the Epipaleolithic or Pre-Pottery Neolithic as it is evidently not Paleolithic, Mesolithic or even Pottery Neolithic.

Slievemore is rich in archaeological monuments that span a 5, 000 year period from the Neolithic to the Post Medieval.

A few artifacts from the Neolithic period were found in Aarau.

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.

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.

There is evidence of occupation from the Neolithic period in Cheddar.

Occupation of the site at Delphi can be traced back to the Neolithic period with extensive occupation and use beginning in the Mycenaean period ( 1600 – 1100 BC ).

The Neolithic period saw extensive deforestation for farming land.

Textile dyeing dates back to the Neolithic period.

Most date from the early Neolithic period ( 4000 to 3000 BC ).

In 2003 and 2006 respectively, Bryan Sykes and Stephen Oppenheimer both championed the idea of continuity ever since the Mesolithic period, with a substantial input from the East during the Neolithic.

Settled agricultural people have lived there for the past 7500 years, since their first arrival at the outset of the Neolithic period.

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.

The Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük, in what is now Turkey, was home to about 8, 000 people and remains the largest known settlement from the Neolithic period.

It was first farmed during the Neolithic period and permanent habitation appeared at the beginning of the Bronze Age.

The Chalcolithic period began about 4500 BCE, then the Bronze Age began about 3500 BCE, replacing the Neolithic cultures.

There are many examples of structures from the Neolithic period, the finest example being the standing stones at Callanish, dating to the 3rd millennium BC.

The Ubaid period marks the Pottery Neolithic to Chalcolithic phase in Mesopotamia, which represents the earliest settlement on the alluvial plain in the south.

* Ubaid period: 5300 – 4100 BC ( Pottery Neolithic to Chalcolithic )

In the Irish Neolithic period, the significance of the date of Imbolc has been suggested on the Newgrange UNESCO World Heritage website, based on the arrangement of a number of Megalithic monuments, such as the Mound of the Hostages at the Hill of Tara.

After Jersey became an island, there is evidence of settled communities in the Neolithic period, which is marked by the building of the ritual burial sites known as dolmens.