NEOLITHIC IN GLOBAL CONTEXT

NEOLITHIC IN GLOBAL CONTEXT

The conventional conception of Neolithic period as the beginning of agriculture and animal domestication, permanent settlements and introduction of ceramics at a specific point of time (or as a package) might not be considered as valid. These cultural traits, sometimes together and sometimes in isolation, developed in various parts of the world. All the Neolithic communities were not fully sedentary and some of the communities were semi-sedentary and adopted nomadic practices as well. Early evidence of Neolithic is found from the Fertile Crescent region covering the Nile Valley of Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Syria and Mesopotamia; the Indus Region and the Ganga Valley of Indian subcontinent; China and Meso-America. By about 10,000-5,000 BCE agriculture and pastoralism emerged in many parts of the world, leading to several cultural developments. Although agriculture has early beginnings in many parts of the world, South-west Asia has the earliest evidence of the development.

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