Neolithic period
Early farming era
The Neolithic period is the final stage of the Stone Age, when humans developed agriculture, domesticated animals, and began settling in permanent communities rather than living as nomads.
It began around 10,000 BCE in the Middle East and ended with the emergence of metalworking.
Neolithic period settlements show evidence of organized grain storage.
- stone toolsShaped rocks for tasks
- village lifeExistence in small settlements
- potteryFired clay objects
- ancestor worshipReligious honoring of forebears
- rock artImages on natural stone
sickles · domestication · crop cultivation · Çatalhöyük · polished stone · wattle-and-daub · mud bricks · wheat · figurines · deforestation · grinding stones · standing stones · stone circles · communal living · barley · axes · seed storage · barter systems
- Holoceneinterglacial, ice cores, tree rings, lake sediments, carbon dating
technological era in prehistory/early history
Neolithic periodOld Stone Age
Earliest prehistoric era
Bronze Age · Iron Age · Copper Age · Chalcolithic · Lower Paleolithic