{"id":21034,"date":"2024-02-29T11:09:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T05:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21034"},"modified":"2025-04-06T09:21:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T03:51:33","slug":"neolithic-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/neolithic-period\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Neolithic Period?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Neolithic Period<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Neolithic Period, also called the\u00a0New Stone Age, is the\u00a0final stage of cultural evolution\u00a0or\u00a0technological development\u00a0among\u00a0prehistoric humans.<\/li>\n<li>The term Neolithic is most\u00a0frequently used in connection with agriculture, which is the time when cereal cultivation and\u00a0animal domestication were introduced.<\/li>\n<li>It is characterized by the\u00a0beginning of a settled human lifestyle.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Neolithic stage of development was attained during the Holocene Epoch (the last 11,700 years of Earth\u2019s history).<\/li>\n<li>The starting point of the Neolithic is generally thought to have occurred sometime around 10,000 BCE.<\/li>\n<li>The Neolithic\u00a0followed the Paleolithic Period, or the age of chipped-stone tools, and\u00a0preceded the Bronze Age, or the early period of metal tools.<\/li>\n<li>The Neolithic Revolution\u00a0started in the Fertile Crescent, a region of the\u00a0Middle East, where humans first took up farming.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Features of the Neolithic Age:\n<ul>\n<li>It was characterized by\u00a0stone tools\u00a0shaped by polishing or grinding, dependence on\u00a0domesticated plants or animals,\u00a0settlement in permanent villages, and the appearance of such\u00a0crafts as pottery and weaving.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0houses were built of mud\u00a0and reed in rectangular or circular shapes.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Alcohol was first produced during this period, and architecture, as well as its\u00a0interior and exterior decoration, first appeared.<\/li>\n<li>Status objects like elaborate pottery and carved jades\u00a0were placed in tombs during the Neolithic period. This practice\u00a0suggests two things: Neolithic people\u2019s\u00a0belief in the afterlife and the\u00a0emergence of social classes. Only important and wealthy individuals had the privilege of being buried with these precious objects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>End of the Neolithic Age:\n<ul>\n<li>Towards the end of the Neolithic era,\u00a0copper metallurgy is\u00a0introduced, which\u00a0marks a transition period to the Bronze Age, sometimes\u00a0referred to as the Chalcolithic or Eneolithic Era.<\/li>\n<li>In time,\u00a0bronze became the primary material for tools and weapons, and a good part of the\u00a0stone technology became obsolete, signalling the\u00a0end of the Neolithic and thus of the Stone Age.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Some of the important\u00a0Neolithic sites in India include\u00a0Burzahom in Kashmir,\u00a0Chiron in Bihar and\u00a0Uttar in Andhra Pradesh, and\u00a0Edakkal caves in Kerala.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Paleolithic Period?<\/h3>\n<p>The Paleolithic Age, also known as the Stone Age, is a prehistoric period that spanned from about 2.6 million years ago to around 10,000 BCE (Before Common Era). It is the earliest and longest period of human history, characterized by the use of stone tools by early human beings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/states\/tamil-nadu\/2024\/Feb\/28\/tamil-nadu-child-burial-site-dating-back-to-neolithic-age-unearthed-in-chengalpattu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Tamil Nadu: Child burial site dating back to neolithic age unearthed in Chengalpattu<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Neolithic Period, also called the New Stone Age, is the final stage of cultural evolution or technological development among prehistoric humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}