Paleolithic & Neolithic
We often hear of the "Stone Age" known to as one diverse period in ancient history. We see that the Stone Age is actually made up of two distinct sub-periods called Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) and Neolithic (New Stone Age). A good way to describe the Neolithic period is by first examining how it differed from the Paleolithic period. The Neolithic Era was a time marked by important changes in the way humankind lived. The earlier Paleolithic Era was characterized by an unreliable system of hunting and gathering. An agricultural revolution changed basically every aspect of the human experience, producing what we have come to recognize as the Neolithic Era.
After centuries of the practices of gathering food, man learned the nature of plants and was able to expand methods of refining and planning their own harvest. This agricultural revolution brought about many changes and improvements such as the way people lived together. Because amount food supply could......
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