Native copper, however, was found worldwide, along with silver, gold and platinum, which were also used to make tools, jewelry, and other objects since Neolithic times.

There had been settlement on this part of the Abens river since long before the High Middle Ages, dating back to Neolithic times.

Amber is fossilized tree resin ( not sap ), which has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times.

A quarry on the Lousberg, which was first used in Neolithic times, attests to the long occupation of the site of Aachen.

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.

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.

The gorge has been a centre of human settlement since Neolithic times, including a Saxon palace.

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.

The larger islands have been continuously inhabited since Neolithic times, were influenced by the emergence of the kingdom of Dál Riata from 500 AD and then absorbed into the emerging Kingdom of Alba under Kenneth MacAlpin.

During prehistoric times there was a succession of cultures that flourished in the land of present-day Moldova from the end of the Ice age up through the Neolithic Age, the Copper Age, the Bronze Age, and the beginning of the Iron Age, when historical records begin to be made about the people who lived in these lands.

* Jarrige, C, J. F. Jarrige, R. H. Meadow, G. Quivron, eds ( 1995 / 6 ), Mehrgarh Field Reports 1974-85: From Neolithic times to the Indus Civilization.

Evidence of trepanation, the surgical practice of either drilling or scraping a hole into the skull with the purpose of curing headaches or mental disorders or relieving cranial pressure, being performed on patients dates back to Neolithic times and has been found in various cultures throughout the world.

The transition from Neolithic times to the Iron Age apparently was achieved without intermediate bronze production.

Tattooing has been a Eurasian practice at least since Neolithic times.

Since Neolithic times, carved wooden vessels are known, for example, from the Linear Pottery culture wells at Kückhofen and Eythra.

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.

The use of flax fiber in the manufacturing of cloth in northern Europe dates back to Neolithic times.

Bosnia has been inhabited at least since Neolithic times.

Evidence has been found in prehistoric human remains from Neolithic times, in cave paintings, and the procedure continued in use well into recorded history.

In Neolithic times Lipari was, with Sardinia, one of the few centers of the commerce of obsidian, a hard black volcanic glass prized by Neolithic peoples for the sharp cutting edge it could produce.

These date, without interruption, from Neolithic times ( 5th-4th millennium BC ) to the Bronze Age ( 2nd-1st millennium BC ), the Gallic phases ( 2nd-1st C. BC ) and end with Roman residential settlements, which can be dated to the 3rd century AD.

In the field of Egyptology, William Flinders Petrie pioneered sequence dating to penetrate pre-dynastic Neolithic times, using groups of contemporary artefacts deposited together at a single time in graves and working backwards methodically from the earliest historical phases of Egypt.

Around 9, 000 BC the people return, and a Neolithic settlement was established, perhaps ten times as large as the earlier settlement and one of the largest at that time in the Middle East.

Evidence from timber trackways such as the Sweet Track show that the town has been inhabited since Neolithic times.

Generally similar dishes are found in Portugal ( caldeirada ), Spain ( sopa de pescado y marisco, suquet de peix ), Italy ( zuppa di pesce ), Greece and all the countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea ; where these kind of dishes have been made since the Neolithic Era.

Although many monument types received this form of art the majority is carved on Neolithic passage graves.

The Neolithic revolution brought agriculture, which made denser human populations possible, thereby supporting city development.

Elements of the latter may have generated the Bubi, who emigrated to Bioko from Cameroon and Río Muni in several waves and succeeded former Neolithic populations.

In the Neolithic period, agriculture and other techniques facilitated larger populations than the very small communities of the Paleolithic, which probably led to the stronger, more coercive governments emerging at that time.

Proponents of this diet argue that excessive consumption of these novel Neolithic and Industrial era foods is responsible for the current epidemic levels of obesity, cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis and cancer in the US and other contemporary Western populations.

Analysis of radiocarbon dates show clearly that Mesolithic and Neolithic populations lived side by side for as much as a millennium in many parts of Europe, especially in the Iberian peninsula and along the Atlantic coast.

Rice appears to have been used by the Early Neolithic populations of Lijiacun and Yunchanyan in China.

It is often argued that agriculture gave humans more control over their food supply, but this has been disputed by the finding that nutritional standards of Neolithic populations were generally inferior to that of hunter gatherers, and life expectancy may in fact have been shorter, in part due to diseases.

Rice appears to have been used by the early Neolithic populations of Lijiacun and Yunchanyan.

Human populations settled in the Kerma Basin at a very early date, as witnessed by several Mesolithic and Neolithic sites.

During the Trypillia BII, CI, and CI-II phases, populations belonging to the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture built the largest settlements in Neolithic Europe, some of which contained as many as 1600 structures.

In two recently published books, Blood of the Isles, by Brian Sykes and The Origins of the British, by Stephen Oppenheimer, both authors state that according to genetic evidence, most Welsh people, like most Britons, descend from the Iberian Peninsula, as a result of different migrations that took place during the Mesolithic and the Neolithic eras, and which laid the foundations for the present-day populations in the British Isles, indicating an ancient relationship among the populations of Atlantic Europe.

The Gandhara grave culture people shared biological affinities with the population of Neolithic Mehrgarh, which suggests a " biological continuum " between the ancient populations of Timargarha and Mehrgarh.

The Paleolithic was an age of purely hunting and gathering while in the Neolithic domestication of plants and animals had occurred.

Some pieces are explicitly linked to hunting, like those found in Tiémassass, near Mbour, a controversial site that some claim belongs to the Upper Paleolithic, while other argue in favor of the Neolithic.

By the eighth millennium BC, people of a Neolithic culture had settled into a sedentary way of life there in fortified mud-brick villages, where they supplemented hunting and fishing on the Nile with grain gathering and cattle herding.

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.

It has been suggested that the drawings record a story, most probably dating to the early centuries BC, from some center in the area of the Ganges – Yamuna plain into the territory of still Neolithic hunting tribes.

Human lifestyles in North-West Europe changed around 6000 BP ; from the Mesolithic nomadic lives of hunting and gathering, to the Neolithic agrarian life of agriculture and settlement.

* Neolithic Revolution – wide-scale transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to agriculture and settlement.

Neolithic societies in the area lived by fishing and hunting.

Humans started hunting reindeer in the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods, and humans are today the main predator in many areas.

* The Neolithic Revolution ( around 10, 000 BP ), the initial transition from hunting and gathering to settled agriculture in prehistory

The river has lent its name to a Neolithic subculture ; originally based on hunting, fishing, and gathering, its inhabitants gradually adopted domesticated plants and animals.

During the Neolithic Revolution, which included agricultural advancements, groups of hunter-gatherers domesticated various plants and animals, permitting them to settle down and practice agriculture which provides more nutrition per hectare than hunting and gathering.

They were executed by a hunting people in the Capsian period of the Neolithic age who lived in a savanna region teeming with giant buffalo, elephant, rhinoceros, and hippopotamus, animals that no longer exist in the now-desert area.

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.

Regardless of specific chronology, many European Neolithic groups share basic characteristics, such as living in small-scale, presumably egalitarian, family-based communities, subsisting on domesticated plants and animals supplemented with the collection of wild plant foods and with hunting, and producing hand-made pottery, that is, pottery made without the potter's wheel.

Sites such as Dhra ′ and Jericho retained a hunting lifestyle until the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period, but granaries allowed for year-round occupation.

Regardless of specific chronology, many European Neolithic groups share basic characteristics, such as living in small-scale, family-based communities, more egalitarian than the city-states and Chiefdoms of the Bronze Age, subsisting on domestic plants and animals supplemented with the collection of wild plant foods and hunting, and producing hand-made pottery, without the aid of the potter's wheel.

The Forest was a hunting park during the late 13th and 14th centuries ; ' Forest ' referred to it being parkland rather than being heavily wooded, as the forest declined much earlier, during the Neolithic period.

In the 6th millennium BC, the aceramic Choirokoitia culture ( Neolithic I ) was characterized by round houses ( tholoi ), stone vessels and an economy based on sheep, goats and pigs. The daily life of the people in those Neolithic villages was spent in farming, hunting, animal husbandry and the lithic industry, while homesteaders ( likely women ) were engaged in spindling and weaving cloths, in addition to their probable participation in other activities.

They were executed by a hunting people in the Capsian period of the Neolithic age ( 3000-1900 BC ) who lived in a savanna region teeming with giant buffalo, elephant, rhinoceros, and hippopotamus, animals that no longer exist in the now-desert area.