Neolithic, the Glossary
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.[1]
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Aşıklı Höyük
Aşıklı Höyük is a settlement mound located nearly south of Kızılkaya village on the bank of the Melendiz brook, and southeast of Aksaray, Turkey.
See Neolithic and Aşıklı Höyük
Accelerator mass spectrometry
Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) is a form of mass spectrometry that accelerates ions to extraordinarily high kinetic energies before mass analysis.
See Neolithic and Accelerator mass spectrometry
Adze
An adze or adz is an ancient and versatile cutting tool similar to an axe but with the cutting edge perpendicular to the handle rather than parallel.
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
Afroasiatic languages
The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara and Sahel.
See Neolithic and Afroasiatic languages
Agriculture
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.
Agriculture in Papua New Guinea
Agriculture in Papua New Guinea has more than a 7,000 years old history, and developed out of pre-agricultural plant/food collecting and cultivation traditions of local hunter-gatherers.
See Neolithic and Agriculture in Papua New Guinea
Albania
Albania (Shqipëri or Shqipëria), officially the Republic of Albania (Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeast Europe.
Aleppo
Aleppo (ﺣَﻠَﺐ, ALA-LC) is a city in Syria, which serves as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous governorate of Syria.
Alps
The Alps are one of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.
American Antiquity
The professional journal American Antiquity is published by Cambridge University Press for the Society for American Archaeology, an organization of professional archaeologists of the Americas.
See Neolithic and American Antiquity
American Association for the Advancement of Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated mission of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the betterment of all humanity.
See Neolithic and American Association for the Advancement of Science
Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.
Amman
Amman (ʿAmmān) is the capital and the largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center.
Anatolia
Anatolia (Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula or a region in Turkey, constituting most of its contemporary territory.
Anatolian hunter-gatherers
Anatolian hunter-gatherer (AHG) is a distinct anatomically modern human archaeogenetic lineage, first identified in a 2019 study based on the remains of a single Epipaleolithic individual found in central Anatolia, radiocarbon dated to around 13,500 BCE.
See Neolithic and Anatolian hunter-gatherers
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.
See Neolithic and Ancient Egypt
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
See Neolithic and Ancient Greek
Ancient Hawaii
Ancient Hawaii is the period of Hawaiian history preceding the unification in 1810 of the Kingdom of Hawaiokinai by Kamehameha the Great.
See Neolithic and Ancient Hawaii
Ancient Near East
The ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia (modern Iraq, southeast Turkey, southwest Iran, and northeastern Syria), ancient Egypt, ancient Persia (Elam, Media, Parthia, and Persis), Anatolia and the Armenian highlands (Turkey's Eastern Anatolia Region, Armenia, northwestern Iran, southern Georgia, and western Azerbaijan), the Levant (modern Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus) and the Arabian Peninsula.
See Neolithic and Ancient Near East
Animal husbandry
Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products.
See Neolithic and Animal husbandry
Archaeogenetics
Archaeogenetics is the study of ancient DNA using various molecular genetic methods and DNA resources.
See Neolithic and Archaeogenetics
Archaeological Institute of America
The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) is North America's oldest society and largest organization devoted to the world of archaeology.
See Neolithic and Archaeological Institute of America
Archaeology
Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
Archaeology (magazine)
Archaeology is a bimonthly magazine for the general public, published by the Archaeological Institute of America.
See Neolithic and Archaeology (magazine)
Archaic humans
Archaic humans is a broad category denoting all species of the genus Homo that are not Homo sapiens (which are known as modern humans).
See Neolithic and Archaic humans
Archaic period (North America)
In the classification of the archaeological cultures of North America, the Archaic period in North America, taken to last from around 8000 to 1000 BC in the sequence of North American pre-Columbian cultural stages, is a period defined by the archaic stage of cultural development.
See Neolithic and Archaic period (North America)
Armenia
Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia.
Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.
ASPRO chronology
The ASPRO chronology is a nine-period dating system of the ancient Near East used by the Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée for archaeological sites aged between 14,000 and 5,700 BP.
See Neolithic and ASPRO chronology
Attersee (lake)
Attersee, also known as Kammersee, English sometimes Lake Atter, is the largest lake of the Salzkammergut region in the Austrian state of Upper Austria.
See Neolithic and Attersee (lake)
Ayn Ghazal (archaeological site)
Ayn Ghazal (translit) is a Neolithic archaeological site located in metropolitan Amman, Jordan, about 2 km (1.24 mi) north-west of Amman Civil Airport.
See Neolithic and Ayn Ghazal (archaeological site)
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and West Asia.
Çatalhöyük
Çatalhöyük (English: Chatalhoyuk;; also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük; from Turkish çatal "fork" + höyük "tumulus") is a tell (a mounded accretion due to long-term human settlement) of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 6400 BC and flourished around 7000 BC.
Ötzi
Ötzi, also called The Iceman, is the natural mummy of a man who lived between 3350 and 3105 BC.
Ġgantija
Ġgantija ("place of giants") is a megalithic temple complex from the Neolithic era (–2500 BC), on the Mediterranean island of Gozo in Malta.
Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum
The Hypogeum of Ħal Saflieni is a Neolithic subterranean structure dating to the Saflieni phase (3300 – 3000 BC) in Maltese prehistory, located in Paola, Malta.
See Neolithic and Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum
Balochistan
Balochistan (Balòcestàn), also spelled Baluchistan or Baluchestan, is a historical region in Western and South Asia, located in the Iranian plateau's far southeast and bordering the Indian Plate and the Arabian Sea coastline.
Banpo
Banpo is a Neolithic archaeological site located in the Yellow River valley, east of present-day Xi'an, China.
Baodun culture
The Baodun culture (2700 BC – 1700 BC) was a Neolithic culture centered on the Chengdu Plain in Sichuan, China.
See Neolithic and Baodun culture
Bead
A bead is a small, decorative object that is formed in a variety of shapes and sizes of a material such as stone, bone, shell, glass, plastic, wood, or pearl and with a small hole for threading or stringing.
Beifudi
Beifudi is an archaeological site and Neolithic village in Yi County, Hebei, China.
Beixin culture
The Beixin culture (5300–4100 BC) was a Neolithic culture in Shandong, China.
See Neolithic and Beixin culture
Bell Beaker culture
The Bell Beaker culture, also known as the Bell Beaker complex or Bell Beaker phenomenon, is an archaeological culture named after the inverted-bell beaker drinking vessel used at the very beginning of the European Bronze Age, arising from around 2800 BC.
See Neolithic and Bell Beaker culture
Bhirrana
Bhirrana, also Bhirdana and Birhana, (IAST: Bhirḍāna) is an archaeological site, located in a small village in the Fatehabad district of the north Indian state of Haryana.
Big man (anthropology)
A big man is a highly influential individual in a tribe, especially in Melanesia and Polynesia.
See Neolithic and Big man (anthropology)
Bir Kiseiba
Bir Kiseiba is a Neolithic archaeological site in Egypt, dating from approximately 11,000–5,000 BP, that lies approximately 250 km west of the Nile in Lower Nubia.
Bow drill
A bow drill is a simple hand-operated type of tool, consisting of a rod (the spindle or drill shaft) that is set in rapid rotary motion by means of a cord wrapped around it, kept taut by a bow which is pushed back and forth with one hand.
Brú na Bóinne
Brú na Bóinne ("mansion or palace of the Boyne"), also called the Boyne Valley tombs, is an ancient monument complex and ritual landscape in County Meath, Ireland, located in a bend of the River Boyne.
See Neolithic and Brú na Bóinne
British Isles
The British Isles are a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland), and over six thousand smaller islands.
See Neolithic and British Isles
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC. Neolithic and Bronze Age are historical eras.
Brown University
Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island.
See Neolithic and Brown University
Bulgaria
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located west of the Black Sea and south of the Danube river, Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of and is the 16th largest country in Europe.
Byblos
Byblos (Βύβλος), also known as Jebeil, Jbeil or Jubayl (Jubayl, locally Jbeil; 𐤂𐤁𐤋,, probably Gebal), is an ancient city in the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate of Lebanon.
Canoe
A canoe is a lightweight narrow water vessel, typically pointed at both ends and open on top, propelled by one or more seated or kneeling paddlers facing the direction of travel and using paddles.
Caral–Supe civilization
Caral–Supe (also known as Caral and Norte Chico) was a complex Pre-Columbian era society that included as many as thirty major population centers in what is now the Caral region of north-central coastal Peru.
See Neolithic and Caral–Supe civilization
Cardium pottery
Cardium pottery or Cardial ware is a Neolithic decorative style that gets its name from the imprinting of the clay with the heart-shaped shell of the Corculum cardissa, a member of the cockle family Cardiidae.
See Neolithic and Cardium pottery
Carriageway
A carriageway (British English) or roadway (North American English) consists of a width of road on which a vehicle is not restricted by any physical barriers or separation to move laterally.
Carrying capacity
The carrying capacity of an environment is the maximum population size of a biological species that can be sustained by that specific environment, given the food, habitat, water, and other resources available.
See Neolithic and Carrying capacity
Cattle
Cattle (Bos taurus) are large, domesticated, bovid ungulates widely kept as livestock. They are prominent modern members of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus Bos. Mature female cattle are called cows and mature male cattle are bulls. Young female cattle are called heifers, young male cattle are oxen or bullocks, and castrated male cattle are known as steers.
Causewayed enclosure
A causewayed enclosure is a type of large prehistoric earthwork common to the early Neolithic in Europe.
See Neolithic and Causewayed enclosure
Céide Fields
The Céide Fields is an archaeological site on the north County Mayo coast in the west of Ireland, about northwest of Ballycastle.
See Neolithic and Céide Fields
Central Anatolia Region
The Central Anatolia Region (İç Anadolu Bölgesi) is a geographical region of Turkey.
See Neolithic and Central Anatolia Region
Central Asia
Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.
See Neolithic and Central Asia
Central Europe
Central Europe is a geographical region of Europe between Eastern, Southern, Western and Northern Europe.
See Neolithic and Central Europe
Cereal
A cereal is a grass cultivated for its edible grain.
Chalcolithic
The Chalcolithic (also called the Copper Age and Eneolithic) was an archaeological period characterized by the increasing use of smelted copper. Neolithic and Chalcolithic are historical eras.
See Neolithic and Chalcolithic
Chalcolithic Europe
The European Chalcolithic, the Chalcolithic (also Eneolithic, Copper Age) period of Prehistoric Europe, lasted roughly from 5000 to 2000 BC, developing from the preceding Neolithic period and followed by the Bronze Age.
See Neolithic and Chalcolithic Europe
Chamber tomb
A chamber tomb is a tomb for burial used in many different cultures.
See Neolithic and Chamber tomb
Chengtoushan
Chengtoushan was a Neolithic settlement located on the northwestern edge of Dongting Lake in Li County, Hunan, China.
See Neolithic and Chengtoushan
Chiefdom
A chiefdom is a political organization of people represented or governed by a chief.
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
Chogha Bonut
Chogha Bonut (Persian Choghā bonut) is an archaeological site in south-western Iran, located in the Khuzistan Province.
See Neolithic and Chogha Bonut
Cishan culture
The Cishan culture (6500–5000 BC) was a Neolithic culture in northern China, on the eastern foothills of the Taihang Mountains.
See Neolithic and Cishan culture
City
A city is a human settlement of a notable size.
Comb Ceramic culture
The Comb Ceramic culture or Pit-Comb Ware culture, often abbreviated as CCC or PCW, was a northeast European culture characterised by its Pit–Comb Ware.
See Neolithic and Comb Ceramic culture
Corded Ware culture
The Corded Ware culture comprises a broad archaeological horizon of Europe between – 2350 BC, thus from the late Neolithic, through the Copper Age, and ending in the early Bronze Age.
See Neolithic and Corded Ware culture
Cortaillod culture
The Cortaillod culture is one of several archaeologically defined cultures belonging to the Neolithic period of Switzerland.
See Neolithic and Cortaillod culture
Cremation
Cremation is a method of final disposition of a dead body through burning.
Crete
Crete (translit, Modern:, Ancient) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
The Cucuteni–Trypillia culture, also known as the Cucuteni culture, Trypillia culture or Tripolye culture is a Neolithic–Chalcolithic archaeological culture (5500 to 2750 BC) of Southeast Europe.
See Neolithic and Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
Cultural diffusion
In cultural anthropology and cultural geography, cultural diffusion, as conceptualized by Leo Frobenius in his 1897/98 publication Der westafrikanische Kulturkreis, is the spread of cultural items—such as ideas, styles, religions, technologies, languages—between individuals, whether within a single culture or from one culture to another.
See Neolithic and Cultural diffusion
Cursus
Stonehenge Cursus, Wiltshire Dorset Cursus terminal on Thickthorn Down, Dorset Cursuses are monumental Neolithic structures resembling ditches or trenches in the islands of Great Britain and Ireland.
Cyprus
Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Dadiwan culture
The Dadiwan culture (c. 5800–5400 BCE) was a Neolithic culture located primarily in the eastern portion of Gansu and Shaanxi provinces in modern China.
See Neolithic and Dadiwan culture
Danielle Stordeur
Danielle Stordeur is a French Archaeologist and Directeur de Recherche at the CNRS.
See Neolithic and Danielle Stordeur
Dapenkeng culture
The Dapenkeng culture was an early Neolithic culture that appeared in northern Taiwan between 4000 and 3000 BC and quickly spread around the coast of the island, as well as the Penghu islands to the west.
See Neolithic and Dapenkeng culture
Dark faced burnished ware
Dark faced burnished ware or DFBW is the second oldest form of pottery developed in the western world, the oldest being Dotted wavy line pottery from Africa.
See Neolithic and Dark faced burnished ware
Dawenkou culture
The Dawenkou culture was a Chinese Neolithic culture primarily located in the eastern province of Shandong, but also appearing in Anhui, Henan and Jiangsu.
See Neolithic and Dawenkou culture
Daxi culture
The Daxi culture (5000–3300 BC) was a Neolithic culture centered in the Three Gorges region around the middle Yangtze, China.
See Neolithic and Daxi culture
Demic diffusion
Demic diffusion, as opposed to trans-cultural diffusion, is a demographic term referring to a migratory model, developed by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, of population diffusion into and across an area that had been previously uninhabited by that group and possibly but not necessarily displacing, replacing, or intermixing with an existing population (such as has been suggested for the spread of agriculture across Neolithic Europe and several other ''Landnahme'' events).
See Neolithic and Demic diffusion
Diet (nutrition)
In nutrition, diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism.
See Neolithic and Diet (nutrition)
Disease
A disease is a particular abnormal condition that adversely affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism and is not immediately due to any external injury.
Dolmen
A dolmen or portal tomb is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table".
Domestication of the dog
The domestication of the dog was the process which led to the domestic dog.
See Neolithic and Domestication of the dog
Domestication of vertebrates
The domestication of vertebrates is the mutual relationship between vertebrate animals including birds and mammals, and the humans who have influence on their care and reproduction.
See Neolithic and Domestication of vertebrates
Drought
A drought is a period of drier-than-normal conditions.
Dryland farming
Dryland farming and dry farming encompass specific agricultural techniques for the non-irrigated cultivation of crops.
See Neolithic and Dryland farming
Dudești culture
The Dudești culture is a farming/herding culture that occupied part of Romania in the 6th millennium BC, typified by semi-subterranean habitations (Zemlyanki) on the edges of low plateaus.
See Neolithic and Dudești culture
Early European Farmers
Early European Farmers (EEF) were a group of the Anatolian Neolithic Farmers (ANF) who brought agriculture to Europe and Northwest Africa.
See Neolithic and Early European Farmers
Early modern human
Early modern human (EMH), or anatomically modern human (AMH), are terms used to distinguish Homo sapiens (the only extant Hominina species) that are anatomically consistent with the range of phenotypes seen in contemporary humans, from extinct archaic human species.
See Neolithic and Early modern human
Earthenware
Earthenware is glazed or unglazed nonvitreous pottery that has normally been fired below.
East Africa
East Africa, also known as Eastern Africa or the East of Africa, is a region at the eastern edge of the African continent, distinguished by its geographical, historical, and cultural landscape.
East African Rift
The East African Rift (EAR) or East African Rift System (EARS) is an active continental rift zone in East Africa.
See Neolithic and East African Rift
East Asia
East Asia is a geographical and cultural region of Asia including the countries of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Eastern Desert
The Eastern Desert (known archaically as Arabia or the Arabian Desert) is the part of the Sahara Desert that is located east of the Nile River.
See Neolithic and Eastern Desert
Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
Einkorn wheat
Einkorn wheat (from German Einkorn, literally "single grain") can refer either to a wild species of wheat (Triticum) or to its domesticated form.
See Neolithic and Einkorn wheat
Elam
Elam (Linear Elamite: hatamti; Cuneiform Elamite:; Sumerian:; Akkadian:; עֵילָם ʿēlām; 𐎢𐎺𐎩 hūja) was an ancient civilization centered in the far west and southwest of modern-day Iran, stretching from the lowlands of what is now Khuzestan and Ilam Province as well as a small part of southern Iraq.
Emmer
Emmer wheat or hulled wheat is a type of awned wheat.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Epipalaeolithic
In archaeology, the Epipalaeolithic or Epipaleolithic (sometimes Epi-paleolithic etc.) is a period occurring between the Upper Paleolithic and Neolithic during the Stone Age. Neolithic and Epipalaeolithic are Holocene.
See Neolithic and Epipalaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic Near East
The Epipalaeolithic Near East designates the Epipalaeolithic ("Final Old Stone Age", also known as Mesolithic) in the prehistory of the Near East.
See Neolithic and Epipalaeolithic Near East
Erlitou culture
The Erlitou culture was an early Bronze Age society and archaeological culture.
See Neolithic and Erlitou culture
Ertebølle culture
The Ertebølle culture (BCE – 3,950 BCE) is a hunter-gatherer and fisher, pottery-making culture dating to the end of the Mesolithic period.
See Neolithic and Ertebølle culture
Estonia
Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.
Eurasia
Eurasia is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia.
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
ʿAin Mallaha
ʿAin Mallaha (عين ملاحة) or Eynan (עינן) was an Epipalaeolithic settlement belonging to the Natufian culture, occupied circa 14,326–12,180 cal. BP.
See Neolithic and ʿAin Mallaha
Faiyum
Faiyum (el-Fayyūm) is a city in Middle Egypt.
Famine
A famine is a widespread scarcity of food caused by several possible factors, including, but not limited to war, natural disasters, crop failure, widespread poverty, an economic catastrophe or government policies.
Farm
A farm (also called an agricultural holding) is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production.
Fertile Crescent
The Fertile Crescent (الهلال الخصيب) is a crescent-shaped region in the Middle East, spanning modern-day Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria, together with northern Kuwait, south-eastern Turkey, and western Iran.
See Neolithic and Fertile Crescent
Ficus
Ficus is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae.
Figurine
A figurine (a diminutive form of the word figure) or statuette is a small, three-dimensional sculpture that represents a human, deity or animal, or, in practice, a pair or small group of them.
Flint
Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone.
Formative stage
Several chronologies in the archaeology of the Americas include a Formative Period or Formative stage etc.
See Neolithic and Formative stage
Franchthi Cave
Franchthi Cave or Frankhthi Cave (Σπήλαιον Φράγχθι) is an archaeological site overlooking Kiladha Bay, in the Argolic Gulf, opposite the village of Kiladha in southeastern Argolis, Greece.
See Neolithic and Franchthi Cave
Frédéric Abbès
Frédéric Abbès is a French archaeologist working on postdoctoral research, specialising in the stone or lithic industry of the Near East and Mediterranean.
See Neolithic and Frédéric Abbès
Funnelbeaker culture
The Funnel(-neck-)beaker culture, in short TRB or TBK (Trichter(-rand-)becherkultur, Trechterbekercultuur; Tragtbægerkultur), was an archaeological culture in north-central Europe.
See Neolithic and Funnelbeaker culture
Gangwon Province, South Korea
Gangwon State (강원특별자치도, lit. "Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province"), is a Special Self-Governing Province of South Korea.
See Neolithic and Gangwon Province, South Korea
Ganj Dareh
Ganj Dareh (Persian: تپه گنج دره; "Treasure Valley" in Persian, or "Treasure Valley Hill" if tepe/tappeh (hill) is appended to the name) is a Neolithic settlement in western Iran.
Gaudo culture
The Gaudo Culture is an Eneolithic culture from Southern Italy, primarily in the region of Campania, active at the end of the 4th millennium BC, whose typesite necropolis is located near Paestum, not far from the mouth of the river Sele.
See Neolithic and Gaudo culture
Göbekli Tepe
Göbekli Tepe (Kurdish: Girê Mirazan or Xirabreşkê, 'Wish Hill') is a Neolithic archaeological site in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey.
See Neolithic and Göbekli Tepe
Gilgal I
Gilgal I (גלגל.) is an archaeological site in the Jordan Valley, West Bank, dated to the early Neolithic period.
Goat
The goat or domestic goat (Capra hircus) is a species of domesticated goat-antelope that is mostly kept as livestock.
Goseck Circle
The Goseck Circle (German: Sonnenobservatorium Goseck) is a Neolithic structure in Goseck in the Burgenlandkreis district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
See Neolithic and Goseck Circle
Goseong County, Gangwon
Goseong is a county in Gangwon Province, South Korea.
See Neolithic and Goseong County, Gangwon
Gozo
Gozo (Għawdex), in antiquity known as Gaulos (𐤂𐤅𐤋|; Gaúlos), is an island in the Maltese archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea.
Graeme Barker
Graeme William Walter Barker, (born 23 October 1946) is a British archaeologist, notable for his work on the Italian Bronze Age, the Roman occupation of Libya, and landscape archaeology.
See Neolithic and Graeme Barker
Great Lakes
The Great Lakes (Grands Lacs), also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the east-central interior of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River.
Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.
Grooved ware
Grooved ware is the name given to a pottery style of the British Neolithic.
See Neolithic and Grooved ware
Hakra Ware culture
Hakra Ware culture was a material culture which is contemporaneous with the early Harappan Ravi phase culture (3300–2800 BCE) of the Indus Valley in Northern India and eastern-Pakistan.
See Neolithic and Hakra Ware culture
Halaf culture
The Halaf culture is a prehistoric period which lasted between about 6100 BC and 5100 BC.
See Neolithic and Halaf culture
Halaf-Ubaid Transitional period
The Halaf-Ubaid Transitional period or HUT (c. 5500/5400 to 5200/5000 BC) is a prehistoric period of Mesopotamia.
See Neolithic and Halaf-Ubaid Transitional period
Harifian culture
Harifian is a specialized regional cultural development of the Epipalaeolithic of the Negev Desert.
See Neolithic and Harifian culture
Hatchet
A hatchet (from the Old French hachete, a diminutive form of hache, 'axe' of Germanic origin) is a single-handed striking tool with a sharp blade on one side used to cut and split wood, and a hammerhead on the other side.
Heavy Neolithic
Heavy Neolithic (alternatively, Gigantolithic) is a style of large stone and flint tools (or industry) associated primarily with the Qaraoun culture in the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon, dating to the Epipaleolithic or early Pre-Pottery Neolithic at the end of the Stone Age.
See Neolithic and Heavy Neolithic
Hebei
Hebei is a province in North China.
Hembury
Hembury is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure and Iron Age hillfort near Honiton in Devon.
Hemudu culture
The Hemudu culture (5500 BC to 3300 BC) was a Neolithic culture that flourished just south of the Hangzhou Bay in Jiangnan in modern Yuyao, Zhejiang, China.
See Neolithic and Hemudu culture
Henge
A henge loosely describes one of three related types of Neolithic earthwork.
History of agriculture
Agriculture began independently in different parts of the globe, and included a diverse range of taxa.
See Neolithic and History of agriculture
Holocene climatic optimum
The Holocene Climate Optimum (HCO) was a warm period in the first half of the Holocene epoch, that occurred in the interval roughly 9,500 to 5,500 years BP, with a thermal maximum around 8000 years BP. Neolithic and Holocene climatic optimum are Holocene.
See Neolithic and Holocene climatic optimum
Hongshan culture
The Hongshan culture was a Neolithic culture in the West Liao river basin in northeast China.
See Neolithic and Hongshan culture
Horgen
Horgen is a municipality in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
Horton Plains National Park
Horton Plains National Park (Hortan Thanna Jathika Udyanaya) is a national park in the central highlands of Sri Lanka that was designated in 1988.
See Neolithic and Horton Plains National Park
Houli culture
The Houli culture (6500–5500 BC) was a Neolithic culture in Shandong, China.
See Neolithic and Houli culture
Human migration
Human migration is the movement of people from one place to another, with intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily, at a new location (geographic region).
See Neolithic and Human migration
Hunter-gatherer
A hunter-gatherer or forager is a human living in a community, or according to an ancestrally derived lifestyle, in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, that is, by gathering food from local naturally occurring sources, especially wild edible plants but also insects, fungi, honey, bird eggs, or anything safe to eat, and/or by hunting game (pursuing and/or trapping and killing wild animals, including catching fish).
See Neolithic and Hunter-gatherer
Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula (IPA), also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in south-western Europe, defining the westernmost edge of Eurasia.
See Neolithic and Iberian Peninsula
Ideogram
An ideogram or ideograph (from Greek 'idea' + 'to write') is a symbol that represents an idea or concept independent of any particular language.
In vivo
Studies that are in vivo (Latin for "within the living"; often not italicized in English) are those in which the effects of various biological entities are tested on whole, living organisms or cells, usually animals, including humans, and plants, as opposed to a tissue extract or dead organism.
India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
The Institute of Archaeology (IA) is a constituent institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), based in Beijing, China.
See Neolithic and Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Interbreeding between archaic and modern humans
Interbreeding between archaic and modern humans occurred during the Middle Paleolithic and early Upper Paleolithic.
See Neolithic and Interbreeding between archaic and modern humans
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
Iraq
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.
Ireland
Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.
Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age. Neolithic and Iron Age are historical eras.
Irrigation
Irrigation (also referred to as watering of plants) is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns.
Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
Jacques Cauvin
Professor Jacques Cauvin (1930 – 26 December 2001) was a French archaeologist who specialised in the prehistory of the Levant and Near East.
See Neolithic and Jacques Cauvin
Jade
Jade is an umbrella term for two different types of decorative rocks used for jewelry or ornaments.
Jōmon period
In Japanese history, the is the time between c. 14,000 and 300 BC, during which Japan was inhabited by a diverse hunter-gatherer and early agriculturalist population united through a common Jōmon culture, which reached a considerable degree of sedentism and cultural complexity.
See Neolithic and Jōmon period
Jerf el Ahmar
Jerf el Ahmar (الجرف الأحمر) is a Neolithic site in northern Syria, which dated back between 9,200 and 8,700 BC.
See Neolithic and Jerf el Ahmar
Jhusi
Jhusi or Jhunsi is a town in Prayagraj district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Jiahu
Jiahu was the site of a Neolithic settlement based in the central plain of ancient China, near the Yellow River.
Jinsha site
Jinsha is a Chinese archaeological site located in the Qingyang District of Chengdu, the capital of China's Sichuan Province.
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, 4th Baronet, (30 April 183428 May 1913), known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet, from 1865 until 1900, was an English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath.
See Neolithic and John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Jordan
Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia.
Jordan Valley
The Jordan Valley (Ghawr al-Urdunn; Emek HaYarden) forms part of the larger Jordan Rift Valley.
See Neolithic and Jordan Valley
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World is an interdisciplinary center at Brown University focused on research and teaching of archaeology, with an emphasis on the archaeology and art of the ancient Mediterranean, Egypt, and the Near East.
See Neolithic and Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Juris Zarins
Juris Zarins (Zariņš) (February 17, 1945 – July 8, 2023) was a German-born American archaeologist and professor at Missouri State University, who specialized in the Middle East.
See Neolithic and Juris Zarins
Kaf El Ghar
Kaf El Ghar is a commune in the Taza Province of the Taza-Al Hoceima-Taounate administrative region of Morocco.
Karnataka
Karnataka (ISO), also known colloquially as Karunāḍu, is a state in the southwestern region of India.
Katundas Cavern
The Katundas Cavern, locally known as the Xherxhilla Cavern (Shpella e Xherxhillës), is a cavern, in Katundas, Berat County, Albania, where archeological artifacts, dating from the Early Neolithic age, have been found.
See Neolithic and Katundas Cavern
Körös culture
The Körös culture/Criș culture is a Neolithic archaeological culture in Central Europe that was named after the river Körös in eastern Hungary.
See Neolithic and Körös culture
Kfar HaHoresh
Kfar HaHoresh (Village of the Thicket) is a kibbutz in northern Israel.
See Neolithic and Kfar HaHoresh
Khiamian culture
The Khiamian culture is a Neolithic archaeological culture of Southwest Asia, dating to the earliest part of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA), around 9,700 to 8,600 BC.
See Neolithic and Khiamian culture
Khirokitia
Khirokitia (sometimes spelled Choirokoitia; Χοιροκοιτία, suggested meaning Pig-cradle, from χοίρος 'pig, boar' + κοιτίς 'place of origin, cradle') is an archaeological site on the island of Cyprus dating from the Neolithic age.
Knap of Howar
The Knap of Howar on the island of Papa Westray in Orkney, Scotland is a Neolithic farmstead which may be the oldest preserved stone house in northern Europe.
See Neolithic and Knap of Howar
Knossos
Knossos (pronounced; Knōssós,; Linear B: 𐀒𐀜𐀰 Ko-no-so) is a Bronze Age archaeological site in Crete.
Korea
Korea (translit in South Korea, or label in North Korea) is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula (label in South Korea, or label in North Korea), Jeju Island, and smaller islands.
Kunda culture
The Kunda culture, which originated from the Swiderian culture, comprised Mesolithic hunter-gatherer communities of the Baltic forest zone extending eastwards through Latvia into northern Russia, dating to the period 8500–5000 BC according to calibrated radiocarbon dating.
See Neolithic and Kunda culture
Kura–Araxes culture
The Kura–Araxes culture (also named Kur–Araz culture, Mtkvari–Araxes culture, Early Transcaucasian culture) was an archaeological culture that existed from about 4000 BC until about 2000 BC, which has traditionally been regarded as the date of its end; in some locations it may have disappeared as early as 2600 or 2700 BC.
See Neolithic and Kura–Araxes culture
Lahuradewa
Lahuradewa (Lat. 26°46'12" N; Long. 82°56'59" E) is located in Sant Kabir Nagar District, in Sarayupar (Trans-Sarayu) region of the Upper Gangetic Plain in Uttar Pradesh state of India.
Lajia
Lajia is a Bronze Age archaeological site in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, on the border between the Chinese provinces of Gansu and Qinghai.
Late Neolithic
In the archaeology of Southwest Asia, the Late Neolithic, also known as the Ceramic Neolithic or Pottery Neolithic, is the final part of the Neolithic period, following on from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic and preceding the Chalcolithic.
See Neolithic and Late Neolithic
Late Stone Age
The Later Stone Age (LSA) is a period in African prehistory that follows the Middle Stone Age.
See Neolithic and Late Stone Age
Lebanon
Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.
Lengyel culture
The Lengyel culture is an archaeological culture of the European Neolithic, centered on the Middle Danube in Central Europe.
See Neolithic and Lengyel culture
Levant
The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia and core territory of the political term ''Middle East''.
Liangzhu culture
The Liangzhu culture or civilization (3300–2300 BC) was the last Chinese Neolithic jade culture in the Yangtze River Delta.
See Neolithic and Liangzhu culture
Linear Pottery culture
The Linear Pottery culture (LBK) is a major archaeological horizon of the European Neolithic period, flourishing.
See Neolithic and Linear Pottery culture
Linen
Linen is a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant.
List of archaeological periods
The names for archaeological periods vary enormously from region to region.
See Neolithic and List of archaeological periods
List of archaeological periods (North America)
North American archaeological periods divides the history of pre-Columbian North America into a number of named successive eras or periods, from the earliest-known human habitation through to the early Colonial period which followed the European colonization of the Americas.
See Neolithic and List of archaeological periods (North America)
List of archaeological sites by country
This is a list of notable archaeological sites sorted by country and territories.
See Neolithic and List of archaeological sites by country
List of Neolithic cultures of China
This is a list of Neolithic cultures of China that have been unearthed by archaeologists.
See Neolithic and List of Neolithic cultures of China
Ljubljana Marsh
The Ljubljana Marsh (Ljubljansko barje), located south of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, is the largest marsh in the country.
See Neolithic and Ljubljana Marsh
Long barrow
Long barrows are a style of monument constructed across Western Europe in the fifth and fourth millennia BCE, during the Early Neolithic period.
Longshan culture
The Longshan (or Lung-shan) culture, also sometimes referred to as the Black Pottery Culture, was a late Neolithic culture in the middle and lower Yellow River valley areas of northern China from about 3000 to 1900 BC.
See Neolithic and Longshan culture
Loom
A loom is a device used to weave cloth and tapestry.
Lough Gur
Lough Gur is a lake in County Limerick, Ireland between the towns of Herbertstown and Bruff.
Maghreb
The Maghreb (lit), also known as the Arab Maghreb (اَلْمَغْرِبُ الْعَرَبِيُّ) and Northwest Africa, is the western part of the Arab world.
Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée
The Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée (or MOM) is a research body in Lyon, France, that specialises in the Mediterranean and the Middle East and the first steps of humanity.
See Neolithic and Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée
Majiabang culture
The Majiabang culture, formerly also written Ma-chia-pang, was a Neolithic culture that occupied the Yangtze River Delta, primarily around Lake Tai west of modern Shanghai and north of Hangzhou Bay.
See Neolithic and Majiabang culture
Majiayao culture
The Majiayao culture was a group of neolithic communities who lived primarily in the upper Yellow River region in eastern Gansu, eastern Qinghai and northern Sichuan, China.
See Neolithic and Majiayao culture
Malta
Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea.
Marxism
Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis.
Mauritania
Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest. By land area Mauritania is the 11th-largest country in Africa and 28th-largest in the world; 90% of its territory is in the Sahara.
Megafauna
In zoology, megafauna (from Greek μέγας megas "large" and Neo-Latin fauna "animal life") are large animals.
Megalith
A megalith is a large stone that has been used to construct a prehistoric structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones.
Megalithic Temples of Malta
The Megalithic Temples of Malta (It-Tempji Megalitiċi ta' Malta) are several prehistoric temples, some of which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites, built during three distinct periods approximately between 3600 BC and 2500 BC on the island country of Malta.
See Neolithic and Megalithic Temples of Malta
Mehrgarh
Mehrgarh is a Neolithic archaeological site (dated) situated on the Kacchi Plain of Balochistan in modern-day Pakistan.
Mesoamerican chronology
Mesoamerican chronology divides the history of prehispanic Mesoamerica into several periods: the Paleo-Indian (first human habitation until 3500 BCE); the Archaic (before 2600 BCE), the Preclassic or Formative (2500 BCE – 250 CE), the Classic (250–900 CE), and the Postclassic; as well as the post European contact Colonial Period (1521–1821), and Postcolonial, or the period after independence from Spain (1821–present).
See Neolithic and Mesoamerican chronology
Mesolithic
The Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, mesos 'middle' + λίθος, lithos 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic. Neolithic and Mesolithic are 1860s neologisms and Holocene.
Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys.
The emergence of metallurgy in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica occurred relatively late in the region's history, with distinctive works of metal apparent in West Mexico by roughly 800 CE, and perhaps as early as 600 CE.
See Neolithic and Metallurgy in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
Middle East
The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
Millennium
A millennium is a period of one thousand years, sometimes called a '''kiloannum''' (ka), or kiloyear (ky).
Millet
Millets are a highly varied group of small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food.
Millstone
Millstones or mill stones are stones used in gristmills, used for triturating, crushing or, more specifically, grinding wheat or other grains.
Mnajdra
Mnajdra (L-Imnajdra) is a megalithic temple complex found on the southern coast of the Mediterranean island of Malta.
Moldova
Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova (Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, on the northeastern corner of the Balkans.
Mondsee (lake)
Mondsee (Moon Lake) is a lake in the Upper Austrian part of the Salzkammergut and near the larger Attersee.
See Neolithic and Mondsee (lake)
Mudbrick
Mudbrick or mud-brick, also known as unfired brick, is an air-dried brick, made of a mixture of mud (containing loam, clay, sand and water) mixed with a binding material such as rice husks or straw.
Mumun pottery period
The Mumun pottery period is an archaeological era in Korean prehistory that dates to approximately 1500-300 BC.
See Neolithic and Mumun pottery period
Mureybet
Mureybet (lit) is a tell, or ancient settlement mound, located on the west bank of the Euphrates in Raqqa Governorate, northern Syria.
Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.
Nabta Playa
Nabta Playa was once a large endorheic basin in the Nubian Desert, located approximately 800 kilometers south of modern-day Cairo or about 100 kilometers west of Abu Simbel in southern Egypt, 22.51° north, 30.73° east.
Nahal Oren (archaeological site)
Nahal Oren is an archaeological site on the northern bank of the wadi of Nahal Oren (Hebrew)/Wadi Fallah (Arabic) on Mount Carmel, south of Haifa, Israel.
See Neolithic and Nahal Oren (archaeological site)
Nanzhuangtou
Nanzhuangtou (Nánzhuāngtóu), dated to 12,600–11,300 cal BPKuzmin, Yaroslav V. ANTIQUITY-OXFORD- 80, no.
See Neolithic and Nanzhuangtou
Naqada III
Naqada III is the last phase of the Naqada culture of ancient Egyptian prehistory, dating from approximately 3200 to 3000 BC.
National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.
See Neolithic and National Geographic Society
Natufian culture
Natufian culture is a Late Epipaleolithic archaeological culture of the Neolithic prehistoric Levant in Western Asia, dating to around 15,000 to 11,500 years ago.
See Neolithic and Natufian culture
Nature (journal)
Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.
See Neolithic and Nature (journal)
Near East
The Near East is a transcontinental region around the East Mediterranean encompassing parts of West Asia, the Balkans, and North Africa, specifically the historical Fertile Crescent, the Levant, Anatolia, East Thrace, and Egypt.
Necropolis
A necropolis (necropolises, necropoles, necropoleis, necropoli) is a large, designed cemetery with elaborate tomb monuments.
Neolithic circular enclosures in Central Europe
Approximately 120–150 Neolithic earthworks enclosures are known in Central Europe.
See Neolithic and Neolithic circular enclosures in Central Europe
Neolithic decline
The Neolithic decline was a rapid collapse in populations between about 3450 and 3000 BCE during the Neolithic period in western Eurasia.
See Neolithic and Neolithic decline
Neolithic Europe
The European Neolithic is the period from the arrival of Neolithic (New Stone Age) technology and the associated population of Early European Farmers in Europe, (the approximate time of the first farming societies in Greece) until –1700 BC (the beginning of Bronze Age Europe with the Nordic Bronze Age).
See Neolithic and Neolithic Europe
Neolithic long house
The Neolithic long house was a long, narrow timber dwelling built by the Old Europeans in Europe beginning at least as early as the period 6000 to 5000 BC.
See Neolithic and Neolithic long house
Neolithic Revolution
The Neolithic Revolution, also known as the First Agricultural Revolution, was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures during the Neolithic period in Afro-Eurasia from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, making an increasingly large population possible. Neolithic and Neolithic Revolution are historical eras.
See Neolithic and Neolithic Revolution
Neolithic tomb
Neolithic tombs are structures built by humans during the New Stone Age.
See Neolithic and Neolithic tomb
Neologism
In linguistics, a neologism (also known as a coinage) is any newly formed word, term, or phrase that nevertheless has achieved popular or institutional recognition and is becoming accepted into mainstream language.
Nevalı Çori
Nevalı Çori (Nevali Çori, Newala Çorî) was an early Neolithic settlement on the middle Euphrates, in Şanlıurfa Province, Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey.
New Guinea
New Guinea (Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Papua, fossilized Nugini, or historically Irian) is the world's second-largest island, with an area of.
Nomad
Nomads are communities without fixed habitation who regularly move to and from areas.
North Macedonia
North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe.
See Neolithic and North Macedonia
Oaxaca
Oaxaca (also,, from Huāxyacac), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca (Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca), is one of the 32 states that compose the Federative Entities of the United Mexican States.
Ofer Bar-Yosef
Ofer Bar-Yosef (עופר בר-יוסף.; 29 August 1937 – 14 March 2020) was an Israeli archaeologist and anthropologist whose main field of study was the Palaeolithic period.
See Neolithic and Ofer Bar-Yosef
Orkney
Orkney (Orkney; Orkneyjar; Orknøjar), also known as the Orkney Islands (archaically "The Orkneys"), is an archipelago off the north coast of Scotland.
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.
See Neolithic and Pacific Ocean
Padah-Lin Caves
The Padah-Lin Caves (ဗဒလင်းဂူ,; also Padalin or Badalin) are limestone caves located in Taunggyi District, Shan State, Burma (Myanmar).
See Neolithic and Padah-Lin Caves
Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.
Paleo-Indians
Paleo-Indians were the first peoples who entered and subsequently inhabited the Americas towards the end of the Late Pleistocene period.
See Neolithic and Paleo-Indians
Palisade
A palisade, sometimes called a stakewall or a paling, is typically a row of closely placed, high vertical standing tree trunks or wooden or iron stakes used as a fence for enclosure or as a defensive wall.
Paola, Malta
Paola (Raħal Ġdid, Casal Nuovo, both meaning "New Town") is a town in the South Eastern Region of Malta, with 8,706 inhabitants as of 2019.
See Neolithic and Paola, Malta
Pastoral Neolithic
The Pastoral Neolithic (5000 BP - 1200 BP) refers to a period in Africa's prehistory, specifically Tanzania and Kenya, marking the beginning of food production, livestock domestication, and pottery use in the region following the Later Stone Age.
See Neolithic and Pastoral Neolithic
Pastoralism
Pastoralism is a form of animal husbandry where domesticated animals (known as "livestock") are released onto large vegetated outdoor lands (pastures) for grazing, historically by nomadic people who moved around with their herds.
Peiligang culture
The Peiligang culture was a Neolithic culture in the Yi-Luo river basin (in modern Henan Province, China) that existed from about 7000 to 5000 BC.
See Neolithic and Peiligang culture
Pengtoushan culture
The Pengtoushan culture was a Neolithic culture located around the central Yangtze River region in northwestern Hunan province, China.
See Neolithic and Pengtoushan culture
Periodization of pre-Columbian Peru
This is a chart of cultural periods of Peru and the Andean Region developed by John Rowe and Edward Lanning and used by some archaeologists studying the area.
See Neolithic and Periodization of pre-Columbian Peru
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.
Pest control
Pest control is the regulation or management of a species defined as a pest; such as any animal, plant or fungus that impacts adversely on human activities or environment.
See Neolithic and Pest control
Petnica
Petnica is a small village near Valjevo, Serbia.
Pfyn culture
The Pfyn Culture is one of several archaeological cultures of the Neolithic period in Switzerland.
See Neolithic and Pfyn culture
Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
Pictogram
A pictogram (also pictogramme, pictograph, or simply picto) is a graphical symbol that conveys meaning through its visual resemblance to a physical object.
Pig
The pig (Sus domesticus), also called swine (swine) or hog, is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal.
Plaster
Plaster is a building material used for the protective or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements.
Plastered human skulls
Plastered human skulls are human skulls covered in layers of plaster and typically found in the ancient Levant, most notably around the modern Palestinian city of Jericho, between 8,000 and 6,000 BC (approximately 9000 years ago), in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period.
See Neolithic and Plastered human skulls
Po Valley
The Po Valley, Po Plain, Plain of the Po, or Padan Plain (Pianura Padana, or Val Padana) is a major geographical feature of Northern Italy.
Porodin, North Macedonia
Porodin (Породин, Porodin) is a village in the municipality of Bitola, North Macedonia.
See Neolithic and Porodin, North Macedonia
Post Track
The Post Track is an ancient causeway in the valley of the River Brue on the Somerset Levels, England.
Pottery
Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form.
Pre-Pottery Neolithic
The Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) represents the early Neolithic in the Levantine and upper Mesopotamian region of the Fertile Crescent, dating to years ago, (10000 – 6500 BCE).
See Neolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) denotes the first stage of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, in early Levantine and Anatolian Neolithic culture, dating to years ago, that is, 10,000–8800 BCE.
See Neolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) is part of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, a Neolithic culture centered in upper Mesopotamia and the Levant, dating to years ago, that is, 8800–6500 BC.
See Neolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
Prehistoric North Africa
The prehistory of North Africa spans the period of earliest human presence in the region to gradual onset of historicity in the Maghreb during classical antiquity.
See Neolithic and Prehistoric North Africa
Prehistoric Scotland
Archaeology and geology continue to reveal the secrets of prehistoric Scotland, uncovering a complex past before the Romans brought Scotland into the scope of recorded history.
See Neolithic and Prehistoric Scotland
Prehistory
Prehistory, also called pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the first known use of stone tools by hominins million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. Neolithic and Prehistory are historical eras.
Prehistory of Anatolia
The prehistory of Anatolia stretches from the Paleolithic era through to the appearance of classical civilisation in the middle of the 1st millennium BC.
See Neolithic and Prehistory of Anatolia
Prehistory of Australia
The prehistory of Australia is the period between the first human habitation of the Australian continent and the colonisation of Australia in 1788, which marks the start of consistent written documentation of Australia.
See Neolithic and Prehistory of Australia
Primitive communism
Primitive communism is a way of describing the gift economies of hunter-gatherers throughout history, where resources and property hunted or gathered are shared with all members of a group in accordance with individual needs.
See Neolithic and Primitive communism
Projectile point
In archaeological terminology, a projectile point is an object that was hafted to a weapon that was capable of being thrown or projected, such as a javelin, dart, or arrow.
See Neolithic and Projectile point
Pulli settlement
Pulli settlement, located on the right bank of the Pärnu River, is the oldest known human settlement in Estonia.
See Neolithic and Pulli settlement
Quezon, Palawan
Quezon, officially the Municipality of Quezon (Bayan ng Quezon), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Palawan, Philippines.
See Neolithic and Quezon, Palawan
Qujialing culture
The Qujialing culture (3400–2600 BC) was a Neolithic civilisation centered primarily on the middle Yangtze River region in Hubei and Hunan, China.
See Neolithic and Qujialing culture
Red Sea
The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia.
Rhine
--> The Rhine is one of the major European rivers.
Robert M. W. Dixon
Robert Malcolm Ward "Bob" Dixon (born 25 January 1939, in Gloucester, England) is a Professor of Linguistics in the College of Arts, Society, and Education and The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Queensland.
See Neolithic and Robert M. W. Dixon
Rock art of the Djelfa region
The rock art of the Djelfa region in the Ouled Naïl Range (Algeria) consists of prehistoric cave paintings and petroglyphs dating from the Neolithic age which have been recognized since 1914.
See Neolithic and Rock art of the Djelfa region
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.
Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
Sahara
The Sahara is a desert spanning across North Africa.
Salt
In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl).
Sanitation
Sanitation refers to public health conditions related to clean drinking water and treatment and disposal of human excreta and sewage.
Sanxingdui
Sanxingdui is an archaeological site and a major Bronze Age culture in modern Guanghan, Sichuan, China.
Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples.
Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
See Neolithic and Science (journal)
Scientific evidence
Scientific evidence is evidence that serves to either support or counter a scientific theory or hypothesis, although scientists also use evidence in other ways, such as when applying theories to practical problems.
See Neolithic and Scientific evidence
Sedentism
In cultural anthropology, sedentism (sometimes called sedentariness; compare sedentarism) is the practice of living in one place for a long time.
Selective breeding
Selective breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits (characteristics) by choosing which typically animal or plant males and females will sexually reproduce and have offspring together.
See Neolithic and Selective breeding
Serbia
Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Southeast and Central Europe, located in the Balkans and the Pannonian Plain.
Sesklo
Sesklo (Σέσκλο; Seshklu) is a village in Greece that is located near Volos, a city located within the municipality of Aisonia.
Shang dynasty
The Shang dynasty, also known as the Yin dynasty, was a Chinese royal dynasty that ruled in the Yellow River valley during the second millennium BC, traditionally succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Western Zhou dynasty.
See Neolithic and Shang dynasty
Sheep
Sheep (sheep) or domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are a domesticated, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.
Shengavit (site)
The Shengavit Settlement (Շենգավիթ հնավայր, Shengavit' hənavayr) is an archaeological site in present-day Yerevan, Armenia located on a hill south-east of Yerevan Lake.
See Neolithic and Shengavit (site)
Shijiahe culture
The Shijiahe culture (2500–2000 BC) was a late Neolithic culture centered on the middle Yangtze River region in Shijiahe Town, Tianmen, Hubei Province, China.
See Neolithic and Shijiahe culture
Sicily
Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.
Sickle
A sickle, bagging hook, reaping-hook or grasshook is a single-handed agricultural tool designed with variously curved blades and typically used for harvesting or reaping grain crops, or cutting succulent forage chiefly for feeding livestock.
Skara Brae
Skara Brae is a stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Mainland, the largest island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland.
Slovenia
Slovenia (Slovenija), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene), is a country in southern Central Europe.
A social class or social stratum is a grouping of people into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the working class, middle class, and upper class.
See Neolithic and Social class
Social stratification refers to a society's categorization of its people into groups based on socioeconomic factors like wealth, income, race, education, ethnicity, gender, occupation, social status, or derived power (social and political).
See Neolithic and Social stratification
South Asian Stone Age
The South Asian Stone Age covers the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods in the Indian subcontinent.
See Neolithic and South Asian Stone Age
South Cushitic languages
The South Cushitic or Rift languages of Tanzania are a branch of the Cushitic languages.
See Neolithic and South Cushitic languages
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.
Spear
A spear is a polearm consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a pointed head.
Spelt
Spelt (Triticum spelta), also known as dinkel wheat or hulled wheat, is a species of wheat that has been cultivated since approximately 5000 BCE.
Spindle (textiles)
A spindle is a straight spike, usually made from wood, used for spinning, twisting fibers such as wool, flax, hemp, cotton into yarn.
See Neolithic and Spindle (textiles)
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.
Stara Zagora
Stara Zagora (Стара Загора) is a city in Bulgaria, and the administrative capital of Stara Zagora Province.
See Neolithic and Stara Zagora
Starčevo–Körös–Criș culture
The Starčevo–Karanovo I-II–Körös culture or Starčevo–Körös–Criș culture is a grouping of two related Neolithic archaeological cultures in Southeastern Europe: the Starčevo culture and the Körös or Criș culture.
See Neolithic and Starčevo–Körös–Criș culture
State (polity)
A state is a political entity that regulates society and the population within a territory.
See Neolithic and State (polity)
Stilt house
Stilt houses (also called pile dwellings or lake dwellings) are houses raised on stilts (or piles) over the surface of the soil or a body of water.
Stone Age
The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface.
Stone tools have been used throughout human history but are most closely associated with prehistoric cultures and in particular those of the Stone Age.
Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, west of Amesbury.
Subsistence economy
A subsistence economy is an economy directed to basic subsistence, the provision of food, clothing, shelter rather than to the market.
See Neolithic and Subsistence economy
Sumer
Sumer is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC.
Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.
Tabon Caves
The Tabon Caves is a cave system located in Lipuun Point, Panitian, Quezon, Palawan in the Philippines.
Tabon Man
Tabon Man refers to remains discovered in the Tabon Caves in Lipuun Point in Quezon, Palawan in the Philippines.
Tagant Plateau
The Tagant Plateau is located in eastern Mauritania, forming a stony part of the Sahara Desert.
See Neolithic and Tagant Plateau
Tahunian
The Tahunian is variously referred to as an archaeological culture, flint industry and period of the Natufian Stone Age around Wadi Tahuna near Bethlehem.
Taihang Mountains
The Taihang Mountains are a Chinese mountain range running down the eastern edge of the Loess Plateau in Shanxi, Henan and Hebei provinces.
See Neolithic and Taihang Mountains
Talheim Death Pit
The Talheim Death Pit (German: Massaker von Talheim), discovered in 1983, was a mass grave found in a Linear Pottery Culture settlement, also known as a Linearbandkeramik (LBK) culture.
See Neolithic and Talheim Death Pit
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (TN) is the southernmost state of India.
Technology
Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way.
Tell Aswad
Tell Aswad (تل أسود, "Hill Black"), Su-uk-su or Shuksa, is a large prehistoric, neolithic tell, about in size, located around from Damascus in Syria, on a tributary of the Barada River at the eastern end of the village of Jdeidet el Khass.
Tell es-Sultan
Tell es-Sultan (تل السلطان, lit. Sultan's Hill), also known as Tel Jericho or Ancient Jericho, is an archaeological site and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Palestine, in the city of Jericho, consisting of the remains of the oldest fortified city in the world.
See Neolithic and Tell es-Sultan
Tell Qaramel
Tell Qaramel (also Tel Qaramel or Tel al-Qaramel, تل القرامل) is a tell, or archaeological mound, located in the north of present-day Syria, 25 km north of Aleppo and about 65 km south of the Taurus mountains, adjacent to the river Quweiq that flows to Aleppo.
See Neolithic and Tell Qaramel
Tell Zeidan
Tell Zeidan is an archaeological site of the Ubaid culture in northern Syria, from about 5500 to 4000 BC.
Terramare culture
Terramare, terramara, or terremare is a technology complex mainly of the central Po valley, in Emilia, Northern Italy, dating to the Middle and Late Bronze Age c. 1700–1150 BC.
See Neolithic and Terramare culture
The Korea Times
The Korea Times is a daily English-language newspaper in South Korea.
See Neolithic and The Korea Times
Three-age system
The three-age system is the periodization of human prehistory (with some overlap into the historical periods in a few regions) into three time-periods: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age, although the concept may also refer to other tripartite divisions of historic time periods.
See Neolithic and Three-age system
Tichit
Tichit, or Tichitt (Ticit, تيشيت), is a partly abandoned village at the foot of the Tagant Plateau in central southern Mauritania that is known for its vernacular architecture.
Tomb
A tomb (τύμβος tumbos) or sepulcher (sepulcrum.) is a repository for the remains of the dead.
Town
A town is a type of a human settlement.
Transhumance
Transhumance is a type of pastoralism or nomadism, a seasonal movement of livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures.
See Neolithic and Transhumance
Tribal chief
A tribal chief, chieftain, or headman is the leader of a tribal society or chiefdom.
See Neolithic and Tribal chief
Tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group.
Tumulus
A tumulus (tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
Two layer hypothesis
The 'Two Layer' Hypothesis, or immigration hypothesis, is an archaeological hypothese that suggests the human occupation of mainland Southeast Asia occurred over two distinct periods by two separate racial groups, hence the term 'layer'. Neolithic and two layer hypothesis are Holocene.
See Neolithic and Two layer hypothesis
Ubaid period
The Ubaid period (c. 5500–3700 BC) is a prehistoric period of Mesopotamia.
See Neolithic and Ubaid period
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.
Upper Austria
Upper Austria (Oberösterreich; Obaöstareich, Horní Rakousy) is one of the nine states or Länder of Austria.
See Neolithic and Upper Austria
Upper Paleolithic
The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age. Neolithic and Upper Paleolithic are historical eras.
See Neolithic and Upper Paleolithic
Uruk period
The Uruk period (c. 4000 to 3100 BC; also known as Protoliterate period) existed from the protohistoric Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age period in the history of Mesopotamia, after the Ubaid period and before the Jemdet Nasr period.
V. Gordon Childe
Vere Gordon Childe (14 April 189219 October 1957) was an Australian archaeologist who specialised in the study of European prehistory.
See Neolithic and V. Gordon Childe
Varna culture
The Varna culture was a Chalcolithic culture of northeastern Bulgaria, dated, contemporary and closely related with the Gumelnița culture.
See Neolithic and Varna culture
Veneration of the dead
The veneration of the dead, including one's ancestors, is based on love and respect for the deceased.
See Neolithic and Veneration of the dead
Vinča culture
The Vinča culture (ʋîːntʃa), also known as Turdaș culture, Turdaș–Vinča culture or Vinča-Turdaș culture, is a Neolithic archaeological culture of Southeast Europe, dated to the period 5400–4500 BC.
See Neolithic and Vinča culture
Vinča symbols
The Vinča symbols are a set of undeciphered symbols found on artifacts from the Neolithic Vinča culture and other "Old European" cultures of Central and Southeast Europe.
See Neolithic and Vinča symbols
Wattle and daub
Wattle and daub is a composite building method used for making walls and buildings, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called "wattle" is "daubed" with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung and straw.
See Neolithic and Wattle and daub
West Asia
West Asia, also called Western Asia or Southwest Asia, is the westernmost region of Asia.
West Bank
The West Bank (aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; HaGadáh HaMaʽarávit), so called due to its location relative to the Jordan River, is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip).
Western New Guinea
Western New Guinea, also known as Papua, Indonesian New Guinea, New Guinea, and Indonesian Papua, is the western half of the island of New Guinea, formerly Dutch and granted to Indonesia in 1962.
See Neolithic and Western New Guinea
Wiley-Blackwell
Wiley-Blackwell is an international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons.
See Neolithic and Wiley-Blackwell
Windmill Hill culture
The Windmill Hill culture was a name given to a people inhabiting southern Britain, in particular in the Salisbury Plain area close to Stonehenge, c. 3000 BC.
See Neolithic and Windmill Hill culture
Woolen
Woolen (American English) or woollen (Commonwealth English) is a type of yarn made from carded wool.
Xia dynasty
The Xia dynasty is the first dynasty in traditional Chinese historiography.
Xinglongwa culture
The Xinglongwa culture (興隆洼文化) (6200–5400 BC) was a Neolithic culture in northeastern China, found mainly around the Inner Mongolia-Liaoning border at the Liao River basin.
See Neolithic and Xinglongwa culture
Xinle culture
The Xinle culture (新樂文化) (5500–4800 BC) was a Neolithic culture in northeast China, found primarily around the lower Liao River on the Liaodong Peninsula in Liaoning.
See Neolithic and Xinle culture
Xishuipo
Xishuipo (Chinese: 西水坡; Pinyin: Xīshuǐpō) is a Neolithic site in Puyang, Henan, central China, associated with the Yangshao culture.
Yangshao culture
The Yangshao culture was a Neolithic culture that existed extensively along the middle reaches of the Yellow River in China from around 5000 BC to 3000 BC.
See Neolithic and Yangshao culture
Yellow River
The Yellow River is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze; with an estimated length of it is the sixth-longest river system on Earth.
See Neolithic and Yellow River
Yi County, Hebei
Yi County or Yixian is a county in Hebei province of China, administratively under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Baoding.
See Neolithic and Yi County, Hebei
Younger Dryas
The Younger Dryas (YD) was a period in Earth's geologic history that occurred circa 12,900 to 11,700 years Before Present (BP). Neolithic and Younger Dryas are historical eras.
See Neolithic and Younger Dryas
Zhaobaogou culture
The Zhaobaogou culture (5400–4500 BC) was a Neolithic culture in northeast China, found primarily in the Luan River valley in Inner Mongolia and northern Hebei.
See Neolithic and Zhaobaogou culture
7th millennium BC
The 7th millennium BC spanned the years 7000 BC to 6001 BC (c. 9 ka to c. 8 ka). Neolithic and 7th millennium BC are Holocene.
See Neolithic and 7th millennium BC
See also
1860s neologisms
- Creative class
- Darwinism
- Dystopias
- End of history
- England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity
- Evil laughter
- Girlfriend
- Great American Novel
- Heterosexuality
- Homosexuality
- Illth
- Julian March
- Lorna
- Mesolithic
- Mind over matter
- Mother of parliaments
- Neolithic
- Nosferatu (word)
- Scalawag
- See a man about a dog
- Sensation novel
- Silly season
- Uranian (sexuality)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic
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