Neolithic PeriodUnderstanding Culture, Society, and Politics report by: Johaira Asal Reine Marie Arrojado Romalyn Balana

Neolithic Period

Social Organization During the Neolithic age of Eurasia, people

lived in small tribes. There is little scientific evidence of developed

social stratification in most Neolithic societies; social stratification is more associated with the later Bronze Age.

Neolithic Period

Social Organization Complex stratified chiefdoms or states evolved in

Eurasia only with the rise of metallurgy, and most Neolithic societies on the whole were relatively simple and egalitarian.

Possession of livestock allowed competition between households and resulted in inherited inequalities.

Neolithic Period

Shelter In the Paleolithic, people did not normally live in

permanent constructions. In the Neolithic, mud brick houses were appeared.

Agriculture made permanent houses possible.

Doorways were made on the roof, with ladders both on the inside and outside of the house.

Neolithic Period

Farming Neolithic Revolution- the profound differences in human

interactions and subsistence methods associated with the onset of early agricultural practice in the Neolithic Period.

Nomadic hunter-gatherer subsistence technique was replaced by reliance upon food produced from cultivated lands.

Neolithic Period

Farming This greatly encouraged the growth of settlements,

because it increased the need to spend more time and labor in tending crop fields.

Because of increasing sophistication of farming technology, there could be surplus crop yields.

Neolithic Period

Adverse Effects of new agrarian communities: Early farmers were adversely affected in times of famine due

to drought or pests; sensitivity to shortages could be acute. Post-agrarian diet was restricted to a limited package of

successfully cultivated plants and domesticated animals. Increased population density, decreased population mobility,

increased proximity to domesticated animals altered sanitation needs and patterns of disease.

Antler plough Food and cooking items retrieved at European Neolithic site: millstones, clay cooking pot, and containers made of antlers and wood

Neolithic PeriodTechnology With the use of polished or ground stone tools, in contrast to

the flaked stone tools used during the Paleolithic era.

Paleolithic era Neolithic era

Neolithic Period

Technology Neolithic people were skilled farmers,

manufacturing a range of tools for tending, harvesting and processing of crops (sickle blades, grinding stones) and food production (pottery).

Polished stone axe allowed forest clearance on a large scale.

Neolithic Period

Technology They were accomplished builders, utilizing

mud-brick to construct houses and villages. They figure out ways of preserving food for

future months such as salt as preservatives.

Neolithic Period

Clothing Most clothing appears to have been made of animal

skins because of finds of bone and antler pins ideal for fastening leather.

Woolcloth and linen might have become available during the later Neolithic, because of perforated stones which served as spindle whorls or loom weights.

Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic

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