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The Neolithic Age saw the emergence of polished stone tools, the development of agriculture and domestication of animals, marking a transition away from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle between 10,000 to 4500 BC. During this period, humans began living in permanent mud brick houses, growing crops, wearing clothing made from animal skins, and developed religious beliefs focused on fertility as agriculture became central to their lives. Neolithic people expressed themselves through pottery, cave engravings, mobile sculptures, and other early art forms.

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Neolithic Age Project

The Neolithic Age saw the emergence of polished stone tools, the development of agriculture and domestication of animals, marking a transition away from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle between 10,000 to 4500 BC. During this period, humans began living in permanent mud brick houses, growing crops, wearing clothing made from animal skins, and developed religious beliefs focused on fertility as agriculture became central to their lives. Neolithic people expressed themselves through pottery, cave engravings, mobile sculptures, and other early art forms.

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NEOLITHIC AGE

BY GROUP-3
Introduction To Neolithic age
In this period, stone tools that were polished to give a smooth, shiny
finish were made for the first time. As this new type of tool making
technique , this period was named the NEW STONE AGE.

By the time of the new stone age, agriculture and domestication of


animals or animal husbandry had become a routine way of life.
Hunting was no more the major means of obtaining food. It became
secondary to agriculture and animal husbandry.
The time period of Neolithic age was from 10,000 to 4500 BC.
SOCIETY
 The Neolithic Era began when some groups of humans gave up
the nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle completely to begin farming.
 It may have taken humans hundreds or even thousands of years to transition
fully from a lifestyle of subsisting on wild plants to keeping small gardens
and later tending large crop fields.
FOOD
• During this period, people started agriculture.
• They started growing wheat, lentils, barley, flax and eventually all
crops grown in today’s society.
• Their diets included meat from wild animals and birds, leaves, roots
and fruit from plants, and fish/ shellfish. Diets would have varied
according to what was available locally. Domestic animals and plants
were first brought to the British Isles from the Continent in about 4000
BC at the
start of the Neolithic period.
• In short, we can say that Neolithic evolution
introduced agriculture to the world.
Clothing
 Stone Age tunics were only stitched at the top
where the shoulders were, combining two pieces of
fabric, with a hole left for the head.

 The fabric would hang down the body and was


probably tied around the waist with a belt. They
also wore heavy coats in colder environments.

 Most clothing appeared to have been made of


animal’s skin, as indicated by finds of large
numbers of bones that are ideal for fastening
leather.

 Wool cloth and linen might have become available


during the later Neolithic.
SHELTERING
 Shelter of the early people changed
drastically from upper Paleolithic to
Neolithic era.
 In Neolithic, mud brick houses started
appearing that were coated with
plaster.
 Growth of agriculture made
permanent constructions. Doorways
made on the roof, with ladders
positioned both on the inside and
outside of houses. The roof was
supported by beams from inside.
 The rough ground were covered by
platforms, mats and skins on which
residents slept.
WAY OF COMMUNICATION
 Long before the earliest writings of the Sumerians and the Egyptians were developed,
people communicated with each other by a number of different methods.

 Early humans could express thoughts and feelings by means of speech or by signs or
gestures. They could signal with fire and smoke, drums, or whistles.

 These early methods of communication had two


limitations. First, they were restricted as to the time in
which communication could take place. As soon as the
words were spoken, the gesture was made, or the smoke
was blown away by the wind, they were gone and
could not be recovered, except by repetition.

 Second, they were restricted as to space. They could be


used only between persons more or less close to each other. Writing Systems
Religious beliefs
 Paleolithic man had many hunting-related rituals and believed in
the influence of the wild animal spirit on men.
 In the Neolithic Era, people focused more on the importance
of fertility, or productivity and reproductivity.
 The fertility of the land needed to grow crops, the domestic animals
that fed the people and the reproductive abilities of women, so that
children could care for the fields and for their parents in old age,
were all major concerns during this time.
 People of the Neolithic age were animists. They believed that all the
elements of the natural world, like animals, forests, mountains, rivers,
and stones, had self-consciousness.
 We do not know exactly what properties Neolithic men attributed to
natural elements.
 However, by studying the animist religions that survived, we can
suppose that Neolithic people assumed that the elements found in
the natural world had a soul and that they could benefit or harm
people.
Mother Goddess
NEOLITHIC ARTWORKS
• Ancieny Pottery including terracotta sculpture
was the major art forms of the Neolithic Age

• Other than that engraving on caves hand stencils


and the variety of Mobilary art like sculpted
statues.
ARTWORKS

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