Neolithic Revolution

The Neolithic Revolution, when agriculture replaced hunting and gathering, ushering in complex social organizations, is often said to be the single most significant development in human history.

The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

Had the people of Aşikli formed their community even before the Neolithic Revolution was fully under way?

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

The debate over the Neolithic Revolution has taken a number of additional twists and turns, particularly as processual and post-processual archaeologists, in trying to explain it, have argued over the primacy of environmental or cultural factors.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

The key ingredient missing in the older recipes for the Neolithic Revolution, Binford argued, was population pressure.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

The Neolithic Revolution -- which gave us agriculture, at which time we succumbed to the cult of the seed, the poetry of the shaman was displaced by the prose of the priesthood, we created hierarchy specialization surplus -- is only 10,000 years ago.

Wade Davis on endangered cultures 2003

The Neolithic Revolution -- which gave us agriculture, at which time we succumbed to the cult of the seed, the poetry of the shaman was displaced by the prose of the priesthood, we created hierarchy specialization surplus -- is only 10,000 years ago.

Wade Davis on endangered cultures 2003

The Neolithic Revolution -- which gave us agriculture, at which time we succumbed to the cult of the seed, the poetry of the shaman was displaced by the prose of the priesthood, we created hierarchy specialization surplus -- is only 10,000 years ago.

Wade Davis on endangered cultures 2003

The great Old World archaeologist Vere Gordon Childe (1892–1957) wrote of two great developments in prehistoric times, a Neolithic Revolution and an Urban Revolution.

J. The Origins of Food Production 2001

The Neolithic Revolution - which gave us agriculture, at which time we succumbed to the cult of the seed, the poetry of the shaman was displaced by the prose of the priesthood, we created hierarchy specialization surplus - is only 10,000 years ago.

Palestine Blogs aggregator 2010

Thus, we interpret human history as a series of revolutions: the Neolithic Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the Information Revolution, et cetera, and the political dream becomes to somehow take control of the process.

Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters 2009