Neolithic (jan 1, 10000 BC – jan 1, 2900 BC)

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Introduction of farming, domestication of animals, and change from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to one of settlement.

It lasted in West Asia until the transitional period of the Chalcolithic (Copper Age) 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 followed the Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) and then lasted until later. In Ancient Egypt, the Neolithic lasted until the Protodynastic period, c. 3150 BC. In China, it lasted until circa 2000 BC with the rise of the pre-Shang Erlitou culture, as it did in Scandinavia.

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