Neolithic Age

Neolithic Age

  1. What is does the word Neolithic man mean?

The Neolithic is the youngest part of the Stone Age. The word “Neolithic” comes from two words in Greek meaning “new” and “lithic”, meaning “stone”. The Neolithic period is the time when farming was invented and when people started caring for animals, such as cows, sheep and pigs.

  1. What is the definition of Neolithic?

Neolithic Period, also called New Stone Age. The period of human culture that began around 10,000 years ago in the Middle East and later in other parts of the world. It is characterized by the beginning of farming, the domestication of animals, and the development of crafts such as pottery and weaving, and the making of polished stone tools.

  1. What culture is the Neolithic?

Neolithic Period, also called New Stone Age, final stage of cultural evolution or technological development among prehistoric humans. The Neolithic followed the Paleolithic Period, or age of chipped-stone tools, and preceded the Bronze Age, or early period of metal tools.

  1. What is the significance of Neolithic age?

Neolithic Demographic Transition, Agricultural Revolution, or First Agricultural Revolution, was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures during the Neolithic period from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, making an increasingly larger population

  1. What is mean by the Neolithic age? .

The New Stone Age (Neolithic Era) Like the Old Stone Age, the people of the NewStone Age used stone for tools. Neo is a root we use in the English language, it comes from the Greek word neos, which means new or recent. So, Neolithic means “New Stone.”

  1. What is does the word Neolithic man mean?

The neolithic is the youngest part of the Stone Age. The word “neolithic” comes from two words in Greek meaning “new” and “lithic”, meaning “stone”. The neolithic period is the time when farming was invented and when people started caring for animals, such as cows, sheep and pigs.

  1. What are the Neolithic houses made out of?

A Neolithic house was rectangular and made either from tree trunks sunk vertically into the ground or from woven branches covered with mud. The gables at each end were supported by a large beam leaning against the ridge of the roof. The roof itself was made from timber beams with reed thatch covering it.

.  8.How long ago was the Neolithic Period?

The Neolithic Revolution began something like 12,000 years ago. We cannot be completely sure, but we believe that it began somewhere around the year 10,000 BCE. The Neolithic Revolution is the name given to the time when human beings started farming. Before this time, all humans lived as hunter-gatherers

  1. Neolithic Settlements.

Neolithic settlements are found in North western – Kashmir, Burzahom in Srinagar, North eastern – in Assan, Meghalayaand southern of the Godavari rivers banks.

  1. Neolithic Excavated sites

Maski, Brahmagir, Hallur, Kodekal, Sanganakallu, Narsipur and Takkalakota in Karnataka and Payampalli in Tamil Nadu. Piklihal and Utnur in Andhra Pradesh are the most important.

  1. The lifestyle of Neolithic people

They lived in circular of rectangular houses made of mud and reed.

They led a settled life

In Mehragarh they produced wheat, cotton, and lived in mud-brick houses.

They used hand – made pottery of grey ware,

They started weaving, pot-making, domestication of animals, house building and cultivation.