2. Complete the following timeline with important events and dates from history.
Please redraw the timeline in your answer sheet.
(2 marks)
2 million years ago
12,000 years ago
Farmers and
herders
Earliest city
dwellers
Answers
Answer:
The Neolithic (/ˌniːoʊˈlɪθɪk/ (About this soundlisten),[1] also known as the "New Stone Age"), the final division of the Stone Age, began about 12,000 years ago when the first developments of farming appeared in the Epipalaeolithic Near East, and later in other parts of the world. The Neolithic division lasted (in that part of the world) 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 other places the Neolithic lasted longer. In Northern Europe, the Neolithic lasted until about 1700 BC, while in China it extended until 1200 BC. Other parts of the world (including Oceania and the northern regions of the Americas) remained broadly in the Neolithic stage of development until European contact.[2]
Neolithic
The Neolithic is characterized by fixed human settlements and the invention of agriculture from circa 10,000 BC. Reconstruction of Pre-Pottery Neolithic B housing in Aşıklı Höyük, modern Turkey.
Period
Final period of Stone Age
Dates
10,000–4,500 BC
Preceded by
Mesolithic, Epipalaeolithic
Followed by
Chalcolithic
Neolithic wall painting from Tell Bouqras at the Deir ez-Zor Museum, Syria
The Neolithic comprises a progression of behavioral and cultural characteristics and changes, including the use of wild and domestic crops and of domesticated animals.[a]
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.[3]
Origin
Periods by pottery phase
Periods by region
Cultural characteristics
List of early settlements
List of cultures and sites
Comparative chronology
See also
Notes
References