Neolithic

Examples of Neolithic in the following topics:

• Neolithic Art

• Neolithic Art

  • Sites in the ancient Near East are considered to belong to the beginning of the Neolithic.
  • The Neolithic or New Stone Age was a period in human development that originated around 10,000 BC, lasting until 3000 BC.
  • Sites in these locations that go back to approximately 9500 BC are considered the beginning points of the Neolithic period.
  • Neolithic culture in the Near East is separated into three phases, Neolithic 1 (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A), Neolithic 2 (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B), and Neolithic 3 (Pottery Neolithic).
  • Outline the different phases of the Neolithic period in the Near East and identify characteristics of each

• Ceramics in Neolithic China

  • Painted pottery emerged in great numbers during the Neolithic period of the Yangshao and Longshan cultures.
  • The Yangshao culture was a Neolithic culture that existed extensively along the central Yellow River in China.
  • The Longshan culture was a late Neolithic culture in China, centered in the central and lower Yellow River.
  • The Neolithic population in China reached its peak during the Longshan culture.
  • Compare and contrast the pottery of the Yangshao and Longshan cultures of the Neolithic era.

• Mesolithic Art

  • The later Neolithic period is distinguished by the domestication of plants and animals.
  • Russian archaeologists prefer to describe such pottery-making cultures as Neolithic, even though farming is absent.
  • These pottery-making Mesolithic cultures can be found peripheral to the sedentary Neolithic cultures.
  • They created a distinctive type of pottery, with point or knob base and flared rims, manufactured by methods not used by the Neolithic farmers.
  • Compare and contrast the Mesolithic period with the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods.

• Neolithic Monuments

  • Neolithic art in western Europe is most well-represented by its megalithic (large stone) monuments.
  • Megaliths, or large stones, are commonly used in the construction of passage tombs and typically date to the Neolithic.
  • Newgrange contains various examples of abstract Neolithic art carved onto its rocks.
  • Knowth is a Neolithic passage grave and monument located in the valley of the River Boyne in Ireland .
  • Generalize about Neolithic cultural characteristics in Western Europe with reference to passage tombs and megaliths in particular

• Jade in Neolithic China

  • Jade has been used in virtually all periods of Chinese history, and the earliest jades of the Neolithic Period were often quite simple and unornamented.
  • Thus, the earliest jades of the Neolithic Period are often quite simple and unornamented, being used as ritual or decorative versions of the tools and weapons that were in ordinary use.
  • During Neolithic times, the key known sources of nephrite jade in China for utilitarian and ceremonial items were the now depleted deposits in the Ningshao area in the Yangtze River Delta (during the Liangzhu culture, 3400–2250 BCE) and in an area of the Liaoning province in Inner Mongolia (during the Hongshan culture, 4700–2200 BCE).
  • The Liangzhu culture (3400-2250 BCE) was the last Neolithic jade culture in the Yangtze River Delta of China.

• The Neolithic Revolution

  • The Neolithic Revolution and invention of agriculture allowed humans to settle in groups, specialize, and develop civilizations.
  • That change was the Neolithic Revolution.
  • The beginning of the Neolithic Revolution in different regions has been dated from perhaps 8,000 BCE in the Kuk Early Agricultural Site of Melanesia Kuk to 2,500 BCE in Subsaharan Africa, with some considering the developments of 9,000-7,000 BCE in the Fertile Crescent to be the most important.
  • Neolithic populations generally had poorer nutrition, shorter life expectancies, and a more labor-intensive lifestyle than hunter-gatherers.
  • The way we live today is directly related to the advances made in the Neolithic Revolution.

• Rock Art in the Sahara

  • The Sahara, located in northern Africa, was the home of many complex human settlements dating from the Neolithic period.
  • Images carved and painted on natural rocks depict vibrant and vivid scenes from the Neolithic Subpluvial period.
  • Most Saharan rock art dates to a period that climatologists call the Neolithic Subpluvial period.
  • It harbors one of the richest concentrations of prehistoric rock art in the entire Sahara, mainly of the Neolithic cattle pastoralist cultures, but also a number of older paintings from hunter-gatherer societies.
  • Neolithic cave painting of either hunters or pastoralists during the Neolithic Subpluvial period.

• The Stone Age

  • The Neolithic saw the transformation of nomad human settlements into agrarian societies in need of permanent shelter.
  • Early rock art also first appeared in the Neolithic period.
  • Create a timeline of the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic Periods of the Stone Age, giving a brief description of the art from each period

• Post-and-Lintel Construction

  • The post-and-lintel method is a fundamental construction system that can be found in Neolithic, Ancient Greek, and Ancient Egyptian architecture.