Neolithic

Göbekli Tepe is a neolithic archaeological site in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey.

The neolithic period is also known as The Stone Age.

A trepanned skull was also discovered in a Neolithic sepulchre near Crécy-sur-Morin, where lay no less than thirty skeletons, remarkable for the strongly defined section of the tibiae, whilst around were strewn hatchets, flint knives, bones, stilettos and picks of siliceous limestone with handles made of pieces of stag-horn.

Evidence of Neolithic culture in India begins to be found from around 4000 BC.

Holonyms: Stone Age < prehistory

Meronyms: Pre-Pottery Neolithic, Pre-Pottery Neolithic A, Pre-Pottery Neolithic B

Tokens are first identified at around the same time as the local peoples changed from a life based on hunting and gathering to one based on agriculture. The tokens, as Schmandt-Besserat says, "were part and parcel of the Neolithic phenomenon; that is, the so-called agricultural revolution." (Before Writing 41).

... I was fascinated by a pair of stories about a Neolithic girl who wrote the first letter, and invented the first alphabet.

For the Neolithics, the stone was flint, and it's still impressive to see what they were able to achieve with it.

With this thought in his mind, Challenger gave a contemptuous and condescending consent to the proposal that he should grace with his presence a proceeding which was, in his opinion, more fitted to the stone cabin of a neolithic savage than to the serious attention of one who represented the accumulated culture and wisdom of the human race.