Neolithic | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-07

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Neolithic


00:01:08 1 Origin
00:03:06 2 Periods by pottery phase
00:04:09 2.1 Neolithic 1 – Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA)
00:06:29 2.2 Neolithic 2 – Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB)
00:07:43 2.3 Neolithic 3 – Pottery Neolithic (PN)
00:08:27 3 Periods by region
00:08:36 3.1 Western Asia
00:08:45 3.1.1 Fertile Crescent
00:11:05 3.1.2 Southern Mesopotamia
00:11:24 3.2 North Africa
00:12:22 3.3 Europe
00:14:54 3.4 South and East Asia
00:17:17 3.5 The Americas
00:18:20 3.6 Australia
00:18:50 4 Cultural characteristics
00:18:59 4.1 Social organization
00:22:39 4.2 Shelter and sedentism
00:23:34 4.3 Agriculture
00:26:47 4.4 Lithic technology
00:28:43 4.5 Clothing
00:29:20 5 List of early settlements
00:33:55 6 List of cultures and sites
00:37:04 7 See also



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The Neolithic ( (listen),, also known as the "New Stone Age"), the final division of the Stone Age, began about 12,000 years ago when the first development of farming appeared in the Epipalaeolithic Near East, and later in other parts of the world. 
The division lasted until the transitional period of the Chalcolithic from about 6,500 years ago (4500 BC), marked by the development of metallurgy, leading up to the Bronze Age and Iron Age.
In Northern Europe, the Neolithic lasted until about 1700 BC, while in China it extended until 1200 BC.
Other parts of the world (the New World) remained in the Neolithic stage of development until European contact.The Neolithic comprises a progression of behavioral and  cultural characteristics and changes, including the use of wild and domestic crops and of domesticated animals.The term Neolithic derives from the Greek νέος néos, "new" and λίθος líthos, "stone", literally meaning "New Stone Age". The term was coined by Sir John Lubbock in 1865 as a refinement of the three-age system.