Neolithic Revolution
Agriculture's ancient emergence
The Neolithic Revolution was the transition from nomadic hunting and gathering to settled agriculture, beginning around 10,000 BCE.
This shift allowed permanent settlements, population growth, and eventually complex societies.
The term appears in discussions of human prehistory and civilization's origins: The Neolithic Revolution transformed how humans related to the land.
- domesticationAdapting species to captivity
- animal husbandryRaising domesticated beasts systematically
- sickleCurved hand-held harvesting blade
- stone toolsShaped rocks for tasks
- ÇatalhöyükProto-city in Turkey
pottery · irrigation · grain storage · plow · division of labor · burial practices · wheat · barley · Göbekli Tepe · early settlements · deforestation · grinding stones · hierarchy · cultivation · communal living · Mesopotamia · tribe · land clearing
- prehistorystone tools, Stone Age, caveman, cavemen, Bronze Age
- cropsmaize, wheat, rice, corn, potatoes
Neolithic RevolutionIndustrial Revolution
Era of mechanized production
modern era · deindustrialization · Anthropocene · machine age · computer age
Neolithic RevolutionPaleolithic era
Earliest human tool-making period
Old Stone Age · Industrial Age · Bronze Age · Iron Age · modern era
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