Summary: The Neolithic Time Period

The Neolithic Revolution was an event that began in 10,000 BCE and lasted for thousands of years. Throughout this time period, ancestral humans were transitioning from a hunter-gather way of life to a society in which agriculture was prominent. While geography and plant domestication were crucial, local animal types were less pivotal, yet still important to the Neolithic Revolution.

All throughout history, humans have come up with innovations that have brought both positive and negative changes to the way people live. This all started around 10,000 BCE, when people developed agriculture. The first nomads started off by moving from place to place, hunting and gathering food… but as people developed agriculture, they saved a lot more time. After agriculture developed, the humans learned many things such as farming and taming wild animals for their own use. This time in history was called the Neolithic Revolution… which lasted about 6,000 years, until 4,000 BCE. The big change in the way people got their food and how they lived, resulted to positive and negative changes of human innovations of the Neolithic Revolution. So,

In conclusion, the lives of the people living in the Paleolithic and the Neolithic time period were different in many ways and a like also. Through the improvements in technology, education, and culture they were able to enhance the quality of life throughout these two periods. As man's mind increased, it led into the new age, and the start of what may be civilization, as we know

     The Neolithic Period extended from 10,000 B.C to 3,000 BC. It is also called the New Stone Age, and many new advances and changes took place in this time. Unlike the nomadic life of the Old Stone Age, the New Stone Age was the dawning of settled life. People lived more towards lakes and rivers instead of caves, and tree trunks. This led to the change of the jobs of the society.

Political, economic, and social conditions have often led to turning points that have changed the course of history for nations and people. The Paleolithic Era and Neolithic Revolution was a turning point that changed the orbit of history for mankind. In Documents 1, 2, and 4, they explain life before the Neolithic Revolution and what changed during the period and provide an analysis of results of the revolution. They introduce food supply and settlement, and civilization and trade.

In the 1930's, V. Gordon Childe proposed that the shift to food production was one of the two major events in human history that improved the condition of human societies. Childe described the origins of agriculture as a 哲eolithic Revolution.But the shift from hunting and gathering to food production was not as advantageous to humanity as Childe believed. Although there were benefits, there were also serious drawbacks, and humans paid a price for the advantages of agriculture.

People are generally inclined to associate the Neolithic period with better stone tools. However, this period also brought a series of advancements assisting individuals go from being hunter-gatherers to being herders and farmers. "With this change came settled villages, the wheel, pottery, and more" (Mindsparks 8).

The appearance of urban living was one of the most influential developments in the Neolithic Revolution. Appearing as a result of another important advancement, agriculture, it resulted in a vast, albeit gradual, shift from nomadism and hunting-and-gathering to a sedentary lifestyle. Most importantly, this evolution would result in changes to social hierarchies, occupations in society, and the environment.

According to the article, Jared Diamond refutes the view that the human race is better placed because communities embraced agriculture about 10,000 years ago. Accordingly, in ‘The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race’, Diamond explains his point of view by showing that archaeological findings have proven that civilization was worsened after the Neolithic Revolution as it gave rise to inequality and people became less healthy. By using the account of Bushmen and the Hadza nomads from Tanzania, Diamond argues that the lives of primitive people improved with the adoption of farming instead of gathering, but goes ahead to challenge this assumption.

The first scholars that existed named the whole period of human devolvement the “Stone Age.” The stone age is divided into three periods which are Paleolithic which means the old Greek age, Mesolithic and Neolithic which is the new Greek age. The Paleolithic and Neolithic stone ages have many great differences and has changed greatly between the two periods.

Although weapons have had major effect in society in the past and the present, I think that tools were more important in creating communities that led to civilization. Since the Paleolithic Age, humans used tools for hunting and obtaining their food source. They also used a variety of other tools, such as: stone tools for cleaning animal hides, spears for catching fish, and needles for sewing clothes. Tools could also have been used to make art. Tools also had an important impact in the Neolithic Revolution. Humans used stone axes to clear trees for farming, which had an important effect in the transition from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to an agricultural way of life. Additionally, tools helped communities advance into civilization because

Natufians in the the Eastern Mediterranean begin harvesting wild grasses and domesticating wheat. This time period also marks the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution, which began in the ancient Near East. Climates became warmer and wetter during this time, making it possible to support growth of wild wheat and barley.

The Neolithic revolution is a revolution because it profoundly affected the way human beings lived. During the Neolithic revolution people settled down, division of labor began, social inequality began, gender inequality began, the importance of surplus rose, and religious changes began. These were all the changes that happened during the Neolithic revolution. To this day some of these changes are still present.

The change comes near ten-thousand years ago, when people first discovered how to cultivate crops and how to domesticate animals.This is the most single development in human history.It happens within the Stone Age.For tools, there are still flint, stone, rather than metal, but it separates the old Stone Age{paeolithic} from the new Stone Age{neolithic}.It has been aptly and called the Neolithic

According to history, The Neolithic Revolution is so named because it took place during the Neolithic era, or New Stone Age, around 11,500 to 5,000 years ago. This dramatic change is sometimes called the Agricultural Revolution because it rests on a knowledge of plant and animal husbandry. As a result of the growth of agriculture, human civilizations began to give up the nomadic life of foragers for a more sedentary lifestyle. Cities began to develop, and the residents of these cities were able to build up surplus resources. These surpluses allowed some members of society to forgo farming for other activities, leading to a division of labor and specialization. By exploring specialized professions, people could become experts at their trades,